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RCA Presentation: Television, An

1939/9 min 3 sec/44 shots

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This 1939 RCA promotional film introduces television to the American public following its debut at the New York World’s Fair. It explains RCA’s iconoscope camera and kinescope receiver, NBC transmission from the Empire State Building, mobile coverage of a horse race, and studio production of an orchestral broadcast at Radio City.

Provenance and rights

Original producer: Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
Collection: Prelinger Archives
Original title: RCA Presentation: Television, An
Date: 1939-07-31T00:00:00Z
Original link: Open on Internet Archive
Rights: public_domain

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