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Television: An RCA Presentation (1939)

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Television: An RCA Presentation (1939)
Sponsor: Radio Corp. of America. Production Co.: Unknown. Producers: Frederic Ullman Jr.; Frank Donovan. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 35mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 8 minutes.

Film promoting television sets and the broadcast of New York’s first regularly scheduled programs. The short shows RCA’s production studios in Rockefeller Center, television demonstrations at the 1939–40 New York World’s Fair, RCA’s Empire State Building transmitter, and remote mobile broadcast units.

Note: Also released in 16mm.