I remember an old Adam 12 episode where they get called to the home of an old lady who had had a break in. She told them her Dumont had been stolen. The younger cop asked the older cop what a Dumont was. He said it was an old television brand. That was around 1968. It just goes to show how quickly the public forgot the Dumont name. Sad, because they were pioneers in so many areas.

@dwightpowell6673

3 жыл бұрын

I saw that episode also.

@21stcenturyfossil7

2 жыл бұрын

DuMont branded color TVs were being sold in the early 60s, maybe later. DuMont by then was a brand of Emerson Electric. The TV I had was essentially a rebranded RCA set. DuMonts were pretty heavy. The TV might have been stolen but the thief surely didn't run off with it.

@andyb811

Жыл бұрын

The end of Dumont is very sad and was due to Paramount, threw money and its influence to ABC which was the fourth network.

@fromthesidelines

Жыл бұрын

In Eatontown, New Jersey, there was a big DuMont {Sales-Service} neon sign on top of the Eatonown Television building from the 1950's through the 1980's.

@andyb811

Жыл бұрын

@Barry I. Grauman - as late as the 1980's?

We had a Dumont color television. It was a well built quality product. Enjoyed it for years.

DuMont built excellent equipment. When I first got into two way radio 25 years ago, the fire department still had some old DuMont portable radios that were older than me by a few years. Never had to repair one, only did the FCC checks for our file, and they were always within specs.

A fascinating look at the genesis of television. And yet, Philo T. Farnsworth was left in the dust.

I had an old Dumont 208 scope! I got it from the physics teacher at my high school, it was broken, destined for parts unknown. So the last day of the year he just gave it to me. Turns out it simply had a broken solder joint at the CRT socket, so I just resoldered it and voila. It had a blue trace. I had a lot of fun with that thing. S**t, that was fifty years ago.

@PingPong-bv8ye

3 жыл бұрын

Do you remember Abraham Lincoln ?

@patricknesbitt4003

3 жыл бұрын

In the late '70s I had an old DuMont "portable" TV from about 1961. Had the best B&W picture I had ever seen and I was a TV repair an for several years. I put "portable" in quotes since that thing weighed about 30 pounds and the only thing portable about it was that it had a handle on top.

@miguelferreiramoutajunior2475

3 жыл бұрын

Lucky Man, congratulations.

@PingPong-bv8ye

3 жыл бұрын

@@miguelferreiramoutajunior2475 but he'll still take is 90 inch wallpaper TV. If you don't know what I mean Google it

@c0t0d0s7

2 жыл бұрын

I hope you wore a lead apron while fiddling with it.

We had a Dumont television when I was a kid. It was a high quality set with a smooth fluid tuner. It also had the green cat’s eye that told you when you had the channel tuned in.

It's a tragedy how the Dumont Television network was forced out by the "Big Three". Their programming despite the tight budgets was innovative, interesting and just as good if not better in some ways than the other, better financed networks. Their equipment was by far the best!

@luisreyes1963

2 жыл бұрын

And yet, they crapped out an irritating show "School House". 😩

@ApartmentKing66

2 ай бұрын

The problem with your comment is that it's written from a modern-day perspective. In those days (late 40s-early 50s), ABC was anything but "big." ABC was still very much a fledgling network. They didn't "force" anything. It struggled to survive until 1953 when United Paramount Theaters bought it and poured HEAVY money into it. Paramount's Leonard Goldenson took the helm of ABC and built it into a company that's been for decades mentioned in the same breath as NBC and CBS. Despite being close on NBC's heels in setting up a TV network in 1946/1947 and having, as you pointed out, arguably the fanciest production facilities in the industry, DuMont didn't survive past 1956 due to a number of things, only one of which was Paramount's acquisition of ABC. For starters, DuMont didn't have an established radio network as did the other three networks, thus no talent pool on which to draw and thus no "foot in the door" with which to sign up choice TV affiliates (in the 40s, there was a very limited number of stations to go around anyway). Also, a government ruling wouldn't allow DuMont the 5-station roster that was allowed the other three. Ironically, Allen DuMont had a prior financial relationship himself with Paramount Pictures in 1938 and began active TV production in the early 40s, putting WABD channel 5 on the air in 1944 in New York. But a complicated series of legal rulings involving this relationship denied DuMont that crucial 5-station lineup.

A rare, fascinating look at television from one of its early pioneers.

I wondered about who really developed the TV system, like others here. This system was really developed by quite a few people. From the wiki on Dumont: "He and his staff were responsible for many early technical innovations, including the first consumer all-electronic television receiver in 1938." So really, as in this video, Dumont did put into place the first commercial TV system.

@simonrich3811

3 жыл бұрын

All-electronic receivers were available in the U.K in 1936, ready for the world's first regular electronic T.V. broadcasts by the BBC in November 1936.

@JavierAlbinarrate

Жыл бұрын

And we could add that the Berlin Olympic games were also televised in all electronic sets. Dumont was an accomplished engineer, but in the US they tend to forget that the world is bigger than just the USA.

The cathode ray oscilloscope, Type 208-B, was developed by Allen B. DuMont Laboratories, at Passaic NJ, c. 1943, “Passaic: Birthplace of Television and the DuMont Story,” a television play, aired on the DuMont Television Network on November 14, 1951. (Wikipedia) At 6:55, we see the Transmitter Division building at 1500 Main Avenue, Clifton, New Jersey. The building is still there as a mixed-use facility. Originally, the site housed the Henry Doherty silk mill (perhaps to 1929). Mr. Doherty built an adjoining baseball field and created an amateur team, the Silk Sox. The Sox played against a number of major league teams and hosted such luminaries as Honus Wagner and Babe Ruth. DuMont took over the edifice in the 1940s.

WOW... a picture of my grandfather at 1:06- fantastic!!!

My family's first TV was a DuMont like the one in the beginning of the film without the fancy cabinet. Just a plain black metal box. But just to mention it, the longest lasting set I had was a Sharp 19" color that lasted from '76 to '94.

I remember our first TV, the tv repairman and his family, (had a bad little boy) came to our house for dinner every Sunday. My dad would con him into fixin our TV weekly!

We are in a sad state of affairs here in 2021 when everybody gets their research info from Wikipedia... God help us!

Not one mention of FARNSWORTH...AMAZING!!!!!!......and outragious....

@ChristopherSobieniak

3 жыл бұрын

At least WNEW in New York kept itself busy for the next 30 years until FOX showed up.

@patricknesbitt4003

3 жыл бұрын

In those days Philo Farnsworth was considered a bit of a pariah since he and David Sarnoff of RCA didn't often see eye to eye. Farnsworth was a bit too much of an 'independant' type and big companies such as RCA, Philco and GE didn't like their people (either employees or contract inventors) " straying off the reservation". That situation was not unlike what happened to Preston Tucker since he wouldn't work with the " Big Three" carmakers thus they conspired to ruin him.

@Erzahler

3 жыл бұрын

Don't forget Edwin Howard Armstrong, the man who invented the superheterodyne receiver and frequency modulation. He and Sarnoff started out as friends; 20 years later, they were enemies.

@JeffDeWitt

3 жыл бұрын

This WAS basically a Dumont ad, and Farnsworth was a competitor. If Chevy did a piece on the history of the automobile it's not likely they would mention Ford.

@AdamHicksAE7KN

3 жыл бұрын

@@JeffDeWitt Ugh. Thank you.

The film makes it sound like he is singlehandedly responsible for electronic television. But what about Philo Farnsworth? He really DID invent it!

@brianarbenz7206

3 жыл бұрын

This was the DuMont Co. official line. It's slanted. No mention of Vladimir Zworkin either.

@miguelferreiramoutajunior2475

3 жыл бұрын

kinescope is named Dumont. The rest is decorrence.

@56firedome

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't mention Baird, either.

@tomsayen9295

3 жыл бұрын

But who demonstrated Television at the 1939 World's Fair with President Roosevelt giving a speech? David Sarnoff's RCA with unlimited R&D money.

@lincolnkarim1

3 жыл бұрын

It was still interesting, regardless of the extreme bias. Imagine however the kind of bias we are being fed today.

Thank You for that. I really enjoyed it. it's hard to believe the equipment I trained on in 1997 is already obsolete and out of service.

In 1949 we had a portable TV that took 2 men to carry Used to listen to Paul Whiteman

I remember when we traded in our 12.5 inch TV for a big-screen (19 inch) DuMont! It was a table model but was heavy!

Great way to start my restoration of a 1946 Dumont Oscillograph. (-:

Many can leave a job, but damn few have the nerve to leave a "position"...

🐙I'd never heard of the Dumont, until on Barney Miller, Inspector Luger saying his Dumont was on the fritz..."They don't MAKE Dumonts anymore!" Some how that seems so right for his character.

I love how the housewife in the film wears her fanciest gown to lounge around watching TV.

@stevengeorges9046

3 жыл бұрын

She also acts as the man's remote control.

@fredblonder7850

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevengeorges9046 Well, it WAS the 1950s.

@haroldofcardboard

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevengeorges9046 ah those were the days :)

@tomsayen9295

3 жыл бұрын

A woman's place back then was to lean over various appliances to sell them and to wait on the "man of the house" hand and foot. A company I worked for back then called that "suggestive selling". The woman was always dressed in uncomfortable dresses, stockings, jewelry and heels.

@chadwickwhite6107

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevengeorges9046 AHHH the GOOD OLD DAYS. I WISH it was like that TODAY.

Dumont 😔 ..... way before my time, but I heard great things about this station 👍

This is awesome! thanks for the upload.

No mention of the BBC electronic television service that began in 1936 and was the first tv service in the world to be ongoing rather than experimental service and was aimed at people viewing its programmes in their own homes on their own sets. Programme schedules were published in advance too. Before WW2 the BBC transmitted a whole range of programmes, plays, variety, cartoons, talks, hobbies, fashion, sports etc. Some were studio based, but some were outside (remote) broadcasts from football matches, circuses, London theatre shows etc.

Month after month, experiment after experiment went by. Each attempt made clearer the way to success. Finally, the impossible was accomplished.

@crankychris2

2 жыл бұрын

By 1960, video editing allowed more and more commercials to be continuously added by removing content and splicing ads, and modern tv was born.

Electronic technology is way beyond my comprehension. Things we all take for granted like television or now I phones are amazing to me.

Sad DuMont would be out of business in two years.

@miguelferreiramoutajunior2475

3 жыл бұрын

Very sad.

@Musicradio77Network

3 жыл бұрын

DuMont was the first TV network that went defunct in 1957. During the network’s failure, DuMont also made the Electronicam Film & TV camera, the one that it was used on “The Honeymooners” TV show for all of the original 39 episodes.

I'm astounded by 12:20 - 12:30 showing small parade of RCA Victor sets!

Two of DuMont's owned and operated stations, WABD (later WNEW and now WNYW) in New York and WTTG in Washington, eventually became present day Fox O&O's, therefore many consider Fox to be the continuation of the DuMont Network.

It's interesting, and sad, that a company that developed TV sets and other equipment, leading to the founding of the TV network, eventually saw those gains sink when the network couldn't compete with NBC, CBS, and, eventually, ABC and went belly up. There aren't as many kinescope footages of their programs. All due to the footage being thrown into New York harbor. However, a few of those footages survived. That's it. Thank you for presenting the above.

@James_Knott

2 жыл бұрын

There was also the FCC freeze on new TV stations, prior to the introduction of the UHF channels, which hurt them. One show that remains is "The Honeymooners", though that's only because Jackie Gleason owned the rights and kept copies of the shows.

Sure brings back memories!

I worked for a electric application wholesaler who had rights to the Dumont brand name. In the 1980’s. Didn’t sell many Dumont brand TVs.

@dwightpowell6673

3 жыл бұрын

What kind of business is that?

@robertewalt7789

3 жыл бұрын

Dwight, it was an electric appliance wholesaler in NJ. Bought air conditioners, TVs, refrigerators from manufactures, sold to local retailers. A family business.

When America was proud of it's accomplishments! So sad what's happening today. What happened? If we don't go back to to that idea, we are over.

RCA.. Zenith. Philco. Packard Bell. Admiral. . All gone, there are no more American TV Manufacturers. .

@mpeg2tom

3 жыл бұрын

Vizio is a US TV manufacturing company, but it actually makes them in Mexico, China, and Vietnam.

@stlrfn3190

3 жыл бұрын

Motorola, Magnavox, Muntz, Sylvania, GE are a few others.

@mpeg2tom

3 жыл бұрын

@@stlrfn3190 Motorola TVs are made by Motorola Mobility, owned by Chinese Lenovo. Magnavox was sold to Dutch company Philips in 1974, but now is also a brand name made by Chinese company Funai.

@mpeg2tom

3 жыл бұрын

@@stlrfn3190 also Sylvania is also Funai, and GE is Chinese company Haier.

@orgami100

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yes. Madman Muntz whose TV sets only used 5 vacuum tubes -:) By the way I was a technician at Packard Bell assembly line...

The DuMont Network would eventually wind down and become MetroMedia until it became FOX.

@luisreyes1963

3 жыл бұрын

Really? I didn't know that. 🤔

@rockvilleraven

3 жыл бұрын

@@luisreyes1963 In DC Channel 5 was a DuMont O and O station, after the Network went out business, they went independent and were owned by Metropolitan Broadcasting, the name was change so people wouldn't think it that failure of a network. John Klug bought the company and turned it into Metromedia, later it was sold to Rupert Murdoch and became Fox. Some people think Fox is just Dumont rising from the ashes.

@lonrgrrl59

2 жыл бұрын

@@rockvilleraven Good point there!

@rockvilleraven

2 жыл бұрын

@@lonrgrrl59 One of the first specials on Fox was the Emmy Awards back when they were struggling for ratings I think Jay Leno hosted it and he said "Next Year we will be on the Dumont Network". One reason they became successful as a 4th network was they got the NFC deal and eventually invested in sports television which is the only real live programming out there.

@mikecrawford9323

2 жыл бұрын

There was a 30 year gap between the end of DuMont and the first Fox programs. DuMont Labotatories spun off their two remaining stations, WABD (now WNEW) in New York and WTTG in Washington into a new company that eventually renamed itself as Metromedia. Metromedia grew substantially over the next three decades and acquired a number of major stations that had not been DuMont affiliates, including KTTV in Los Angeles and WFLD in Chicago. The Metromedia stations eventually formed the nucleus of the Fox network after they were acquired by News Corp. (the parent of Fox network) in 1985.

Thanks

I remember my family’s first TV 📺 it was coal fired.

@c0t0d0s7

2 жыл бұрын

How much horsepower did it have?

@luisreyes1963

2 жыл бұрын

DuMont or Muntz?

Watching the technician handle that glass implosion bomb without safety goggles makes me nervous.

What DuMont specifically invented was the long life CRT cathode. THIS WAS A BIG DEAL! Prior to that, CRTs used the Braun electron gun. The cathode was not heated and consisted of a chemically sharpened spike. The point was molecular in dimension. Hard to make, ran on 100,000 or more volts and lasted about six hours, tops. The Berlin Olympics were broadcast with cameras and monitors of this type. Each night, the tubes were pulled from service and the electron guns replaced. They could do this in just enough time to get them back in the cameras and public televisions first thing in the morning. What they failed to mention and is almost is, maybe actually is, more remarkable was that DuMont invented the long life CRT cathode when he was in his late teens. You think that sounds impressive? Tighten your seat belt folks, here it comes. How did a boy at that age get the money to accomplish all that R&D? HE WON IT in a contest hosted by the national dairy industry! How else? Allen B. DuMont invented the paper milk carton as we still know it today when he was just 15 years old! So stop bad mouthing this film. Its obviously an in house Raa Raa film for DuMont company. Ever seen an RCA film. Or GE? They all claim they invented TV. None of them "invented" anything. They all STOLE their innovations from Farnsworth. Farnsworth had the first working electronic camera. Farnsworth invented the idea of a composite video signal containing both picture information AND sync. He invented blacker than black sync. He perfected the quartz crystal oscillator needed to make TV sync generators. AND every one of his brilliant ideas were shamelessly STOLEN. Zworykin, at RCA, never got a usable picture from his iconoscope until AFTER he visited Farnsworth's lab and stole every idea he could lay hands on. This is my favorite subject and I am quite OCD about it. Visit my KZread channel to see my Baird, Farnsworth and Zworykin based television cameras and monitor projects with your own eyes. Thank you for reading my rant.

@lonrgrrl59

2 жыл бұрын

I shall be doing that right now, sir!

Each incarnation of Channel 5 is in the same location: East 67th Street in the Telecenter. WABD Dumont; WNEW-TV Metromedia and Fox's WNYW. The former radio stations, 1130 AM and 102.7 FM, are separately owned.

Pieces in the large jigsaw puzzle that form the true picture of the development of television. By the time television sets were truly a consumer market, Dumont sets relied heavily on licensed technologies to stay in the game. For all the Farnsworth fans who were taught that one person singlehandedly "invented" television (by any definition of the word), you'd do well to learn about the many, many parallel and interlocking contributions that were going on for decades in the US and all over the world. Wikipedia provides easy links to summarized accounts of all the major ones. Hours later, bleary-eyed, your head swimming with names, you'll at least have a sense how much of a role competition, greed, patent disputes, strategic partnerships, personal and national pride, even existing infrastructures, all played a role in shaping the technology that was eventually commercialized. It will help put myths that have been promoted into perspective, only a few of which were taught to schoolchildren or condensed into one-line quiz show answers. Most people prefer a simple, heroic story of the lone genius inventor; the "invention" of television is very far from that.

@tomdis8637

3 жыл бұрын

Right. Zworykin received the first TV patent: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_K._Zworykin

@21stcenturyfossil7

2 жыл бұрын

"Most people prefer a simple, heroic story of the lone genius inventor; the "invention" of television is very far from that." Exactly right. Well said!

Dumont was a man of great genius!

@fromthesidelines

3 жыл бұрын

But he wasn't a businessman. 1953 was the year the DuMont Laboratories started to LOSE money. And their TV network was starting to lose affiliations to ABC, who had an influx of cash from their merger with United Paramount Theaters that year, and could expand their operations, while DuMont couldn't. It was when they sold their only "asset", WDTV in Pittsburgh in January 1955 (in order to raise some quick cash), that the end of the DuMont network began [they eliminated a lot of their programming after April 1, 1955, and just about signed off for good in August 1956 (except for a few stations that continued to carry their Monday night fights through August 1958)].

@jamesslick4790

3 жыл бұрын

@@fromthesidelines WDTV (Channel 3) in Pittsburgh, was sold to Westinghouse, Owners of KDKA radio. It was reassigned to Channel 2, where it still is today as KDKA-TV (2) Now owned by CBS-Viacom.

Really impressionant but some years ago at Berlin Olympic Games in 1936 germans had a complete television system developed by Siemens and Telefunken that was used for public exhibition... Crt's even had a rectangular shape, instead of rounded ones...

@kenmore01

3 жыл бұрын

How about that oval 30" tube? Standardization please.

@Tomcat_815

3 жыл бұрын

@@kenmore01 Could you please stay on topic? And please proove otherwise BEFORE demanding any documents ...

@kenmore01

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tomcat_815 They said that in the video. I wasn't demanding anything, and it was on topic with the OP's post.

@kkteutsch6416

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tomcat_815 are public domain, a television receiver with 30% of total tubes that RCA crafted 10 years after - more than 18 per unit - and magnetic deflexion yokes, I'm a retired tv technician, I know what I'm saying.

@wurlitzergroup

3 жыл бұрын

@@kenmore01 - this is why they should disable COMMENTS on these videos. Bickering like children, really now....

In 3 years the TV network closed. Nearly all of the footage of DuMont's shows were lost.

When the USA was king of the world. Then came 2020.

@crankychris2

2 жыл бұрын

Then came 1950, and USA would start a sorry tradition of losing war after war after war.

Enjoyed it!

thanks again

@PeriscopeFilm

3 жыл бұрын

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Fox is basically the remnant of DuMont. But such a shame that all of DuMonts shows were destroyed and dumped in the east river in New York but good to know that most survived and is preserved.

@lonrgrrl59

2 жыл бұрын

That much is true and good 👍 👌 to know.

NBC/RCA provided programming to help sell sets and had radio to back them up and CBS did too. CBS' subsidiary was called CBS Masterwork or Columbia. RCA also manufactured broadcast equipment and transmitters.

Even though I was born in the 1950's, I was already seeing our technology being intentionally given away. After WWII America was the undisputed leader in all the new and maturing technologies. But already by the 60's we were giving away our steel industry, our electronic industry, by the 70's we were giving away our space technologies while by the 80's all the design plans and engineering of NASA's and other rockets that was paid for with public tax money was systematically destroyed insuring it's lost forever and are now relying on Russian and other foreign rockets to launch anything! We've gave it all away. Back in the 70's we used to make fun of nations like England and France who have become merely nations of Shopkeepers! Producing nothing of significance because they gave it all away; now we're one of them, a nation of shopkeepers and mindless vapid trendy hipster consumers.

@siriusjean-marie8032

3 жыл бұрын

Tu l'as dit bouffi !

@WSNO

3 жыл бұрын

ok gramps, time for bed

@Oldhogleg

3 жыл бұрын

@@WSNO Right after I tuck you in sonyboy

@WSNO

3 жыл бұрын

​@@Oldhogleg Panasonicgirl actually but thanks anyway

@cindylawrence1515

3 жыл бұрын

You are 1000% CORRECT....and on the FACTS. We taught the Japanese modern international marketing starting in 1949 but especially post '51. The record clearly show that besides major financial institutions, a number of very major NGO's and OUR Natl Chamber of Commerce pushed shifting domestic R&D and domestic production to overseas locations which provided wall srreet and major banks unheard of profits. This was made possible by every administration starting with Eisenhower and the upper east side NGO's and various academic types who were actually writing policy at several points entirely divorced from the federal agencies who later implemented it. Amazing and disastrous for U.S. workers and lower to mid range American commerce. There are at this point HUNDREDS of unbiased studies who have examined the post war decline in business. Anyone at this point who tries to deny or diminish what happened is simply engaging in falsehood. So undeniable is the evidence.

The sound was giving me the heebie-jeebies

That ol' cathode ray tube kept getting longer and fatter until it finally got bigger and flatter!

@pcno2832

3 жыл бұрын

The flattest ones were made for a few years up until about 2008; they were not as flat as the LCD sets of that time, but only 4 or 5 inches thick. Even by the 1960s, it was kind of a stretch calling some of them "tubes", they were shaped more like a sack.

Saudações aqui de São Paulo bairro de VILA REMO , Brasil , congratulations for video , da próxima vez da pra legendar em português ?

Monochrome Television was not invented by any one man. However Philo must have had a wizard from the future advising him. Poor Philo he did not have the capital , business acumen or manpower to do it alone. I find it amazing how the Russians had so many brilliant inventors. I worked in TV research all my life. In 1978 It was my task to produce a live video tape interview with Vladimir Zworkin at Princeton University. Yes I have always found TV electronics an amazing art and study. However I have no clue how these new contraptions function. I still do tube TV restorations for a hobby.

It later came the Future Fox Network in 1986 after it's Metromedia from 1954 to 1986 Metromedia was former Dumont stations Metromedia owned The Fox and Dumont story is interesting

You never forget the smell of the heat or ozone these units put out. And the weight, oh goodness they were damn heavy. But they could take abuse that modern plasma's, LCDs and other new display types can not. Especially a angry gamer punching the screen if you died in a game. Good memories. Though you learned in a hurry not to punch the crt screen as they were solid as. You ended up grinning and bearing it and getting better.

@wtxrailfan

3 жыл бұрын

A lot of the weight was from the 15-30 lbs. of lead used to line the picture tube to reduce radiation exposure to the viewer.

@21stcenturyfossil7

3 жыл бұрын

The first picture tubes had relatively thin screens. This turned out to be a safety hazard, especially in homes with active children. The first workaround was to install a sheet of safety glass in front of the picture tube. By the late 50s, picture tubes with thick screen glass were in use and the extra sheet of safety glass was no longer needed.

@21stcenturyfossil7

3 жыл бұрын

@@wtxrailfan , only color sets used leaded glass picture tubes. B & W picture tubes ran at a lower voltage and radiation wasn't much of an issue.

There is something wrong with this. Have you heard of Philo T. Farnsworth? He is also credited with the invention of electronic television.

@JeffDeWitt

3 жыл бұрын

Well... this WAS produced by DuMont, so it's biased.

@brianarbenz7206

3 жыл бұрын

There was no Henry Ford who invented TV singlehandedly. Zworkin, Farnsworth, and several others.

@JeffDeWitt

3 жыл бұрын

@@brianarbenz7206 You DO know that Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile either don't you? (Nor did Thomas Edison invent the light bulb).

@ea327

3 жыл бұрын

@@brianarbenz7206 what does Ford have to do with this?

@ea327

3 жыл бұрын

@@JeffDeWitt I’m not sure that Brian has ever opened a book.

Too bad DuMont didn't have a profitable radio network to absorb all the losses they suffered from TV.

@luisreyes1963

2 жыл бұрын

At least DuMont lasted far longer than the proposed United Network of the 60's. 📺

Great video! December, 15 2020. 😷👍

I'm ashamed I haven't heard of this guy !

It's unfathomable today that TV's were once jammed full of wires and tubes. The TV repairman was once one one of the most important people in your life!

@stormythelowcountrykitty8463

3 жыл бұрын

I remember that -- we had a TV repair man come to the house at least every couple of months back in the early 60's. He was a busy as a plumber is today.

My father got a television like that

So when did the Dumont television product get hijacked by RCA? Hmmm?

They made a bunch of stuff for radar in WWII

@-oiiio-3993

3 жыл бұрын

Dad worked with Dick Stoddart.

The name's Farnsworth, Philo Farnsworth. 😜

@tomdis8637

3 жыл бұрын

Zworykin was the first television patent holder: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_K._Zworykin

Dumont TV brand didn't weather the test of time. If you think about it all the TV brands didn't because they are all made in China now with a American brand name on them.

I was born in 1952

Obviously ignoring the fact that the world's first 'high definition' (405 lines) TV service was started by the BBC in November 1936. Lots of countries claim to have 'invented' television and Britain, Germany, Japan and the US all had pioneered its genesis.

DuMont was FIRST alright....the FIRST Network to FOLD in 1955.

The story in this film is inaccurate. According to Wikipedia [Wikipedia.org/wiki/cathode-ray], Dumont made the first CRT's to last 1,000 hours. Read the history section in the article. As it states in the clip title, this is a promo film, not a documentary on the CRT

Foxy, isn't it?

The Great US of A . LOL Not a word about the 1936 broadcast of the Berlin Olympics

Ha! By 1938 Britain had electronic TV for nearly 2 years, with many manufacturers of reliable CRTs and television sets, and thousands in London homes. What a load of b.s.

Looks like the Dupont logo..wonder if they are related.

@RobCamp-rmc_0

3 жыл бұрын

I used to think that myself, they’re waayyy too closely alike. But I don’t think they are related.

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املك تلفزيون tv DuMont تاريخ الصناعة 1960 أعرضه للبيع

Dumont DID NOT invent the cathode ray tube. (2.00) It was actually the German scientist Karl Braun who created the first working CRT in 1897. I was a TV technician for over 50 years, from 1953 to 2003, and I serviced many brands of TVs. Dumont TV was one of the sorriest TVs that was ever made. I dreaded working on one. It was so crude compared to others, it could never compete with the mainline TVs such as RCA, Zenith, or GE, and that's why it flopped in 1958.

@wahoo7654

3 жыл бұрын

Dumont invented the first PRACTICAL cathode ray tube! The Braun was just too impractical... sorry.

No mention of RCA.

Thankfully, they don't build TVs the way they used to!

@kenmore01

3 жыл бұрын

Or cars!

@luisreyes1963

3 жыл бұрын

At least they were built to last & built in AMERICA! 🇺🇸

@dougbrowning82

3 жыл бұрын

@@luisreyes1963 As long as it still has a decent CRT, you can still use one of those old TVs, albeit with a digital converter. Although back in the 1950s, you needed a converter to watch most DuMont TV affiliates, on the UHF band, as the "all channels act" wasn't in effect until 1964.

DuMont is now Fox

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This is certainly an 'interesting' film, but had to thumbs down because it's just a pack of propaganda from the DuMont company. Comes across like Mr.DuMont invented the television tube (CRT)-- he did not. Comes across like he figured out how to package it for consumer use-- he did not (RCA did).

@tomdis8637

3 жыл бұрын

You have to view it for what it is: pure marketing and advertising, not really "propaganda".

But Philo T Farnsworth did it first and patented it first, too... it's a shame others stole his work and he was cheated out of credit for his invention.

Compared to RCA.....Who?Mont is more like it. Dumont makes out like they are the only player and singlehandedly invented and deployed TV. Not hardly.

@PeriscopeFilm

3 жыл бұрын

Great comment. Yes this completely ignores Sarnoff, Farnsworth, and many others.

@PatrickRosenbalm

3 жыл бұрын

@@PeriscopeFilm Glad you posted it. It was interesting. I'm a fan of Periscope!!

@21stcenturyfossil7

3 жыл бұрын

The film does give a shoutout to Nipkow. But Nipkow was dead and in no position to claim the title "The Man Who Invented Everything".

@ea327

3 жыл бұрын

If you mention Sarnoff, you have to include the fact that Sarnoff stole electronic television from Farnsworth.

@xaenon

3 жыл бұрын

Patrick Rosenbalm Abject bragging and claiming to be the 'one and only pioneer' in something was about par for the course back then. It actually still is, but now they have legions of lawyers go over every single word in the script for a commercial so they can say X, Y, and Z while implying something else entirely. That said, Dumont was not necessarily an 'unknown'. I remember seeing references to Dumont all the way into the 1970s. I even recall hearing a reference to a Dumont television in an old episode of Dragnet. "A brand of television, they don't make them anymore," Sgt. Friday remarked.

Why do the old documentaries say "tyube"?

@donwhitt9899

3 жыл бұрын

Because it has a "U" in it.

Wasn't the Dumont network considered half-ass as compared to the other networks.

@lwilton

3 жыл бұрын

@Al Fabeech You should have. It was nearly as famous and important as this puff piece on the company claims. The network was gone by the time you were 4, so you wouldn't remember that. Perhaps you didn't have anything to do with electronics in even a casual way, because the studio-side TV and radio equipment and laboratory measuring equipment was very well known and respected.

@lwilton

3 жыл бұрын

@Al Fabeech That would probably explain it then. I can recall seeing used Dumont TVs in the Goodwill store and suchlike into the early 1960s. But I lived in Suburbia, and I'm sure there was a lot more electronic trash around than there would have been in a farming area.

@pneumatic00

3 жыл бұрын

I suppose, but you have to give AB Dumont more than a little credit. His competition was RCA (= NBC) and CBS and Westinghouse, these were already relatively giant corporations who had been going great guns for 20 years through radio and had labs and established stations and had issued stock and were selling physical radios built in their factories. (Not CBS) Dumont came on the scene as a relatively one-man show and IMO made remarkable progress when all the technology was really in quite a larval state.

@luisreyes1963

3 жыл бұрын

Read the sad history of the DuMont TV network on Wikipedia. And to think the only breakout star from that network was a little-known comedian named Jackie Gleason.

@esmeephillips5888

3 жыл бұрын

@@luisreyes1963 And Bishop Sheen.

was that Reagan narrating??

OK honey. Show's over. Do your job. Get up and turn off the TV.

this is a promo film, highly inaccurate.

tube

No hint of soon-to-come color here.

What a load Philo Farnsworth actually did invent television ! talk about tooting your own horn they stole the horn

What an utterly ridiculous piece of marketing fluff and spin.

@PatrickRosenbalm

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Lot's of chest pounding. A bit misleading too. Dumont was not without competition.

@tomdis8637

3 жыл бұрын

True, but that's what marketing and advertising ARE! Taken that way, it's entertaining to watch. Not factual reference material, to be sure.