TV in the 40's?
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andyvanm ā 12 years ago(April 07, 2014 02:29 PM)
Experimental broadcast television began in the early 1930s, transmitting fuzzy images of wrestling, music and dance to a handful of screen. It wasn't until the 1939 World's Fair in New York, where RCA unveiled their new NBC TV studios in Rockefeller Plaza, that network television was introduced. A few months later, William Palleys CBS began broadcasting from its new TV studios in Grand Central Station.
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andyvanm ā 12 years ago(April 07, 2014 02:41 PM)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:1940s_American_television_series
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Thor-Delta ā 12 years ago(April 07, 2014 05:01 PM)
Here is a collection of 1949 TV show excerpts:
https://archive.org/details/1949TVClips
Includes excerpts from: "The Ed Wynn Show", "Fireball Fun-for-All", "Chesterfield Supper Time", "Howdy Doody", "The Lone Ranger", "The Morey Amsterdam Show", "NBC News Chicago", "Studio One", "Texaco Star Theater". These shows aired live with the exception of "Lone Ranger".
George? Oh, for a man his age who's been through as much as he has, he looks terrible -
Thor-Delta ā 11 years ago(May 12, 2014 12:51 AM)
Some 1940s TV programming is available to see online, see this thread:
http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000156/nest/205643961
They should release more films and TV shows on DVD and Blu-ray -
g0b0 ā 11 years ago(August 16, 2014 07:23 PM)
I can give you FIRST HAND information about a Series that aired from 1946 - 1949 on the Du Mont Channel.
The Mary Kay & Johnny Show
was the
First 'SIT-COM'
("Situation-Comedy").
MADE HISTORY:
In addition to being a Sit-Com. It was also the original
Domestic Comedy
,
That is a show where a 'Real Life" Husband & Wife play the Roles of Husband & Wife on a TV Show, so that
Art resembles Life.
The Mary Kay & Johnny Show' preceded 'Ozzie & Harriet (Nelson) by at least 5 years,
'I Love Lucy' was on with her husband Ricky Riccardo (until they got a divorce after about 6 years, however, their show started several years after 'The Mary Kay & Johnny Show', Another difference is that they used an actor instead of their son,
HERE's the DETAILS:- My Parents were Mary Kay & Johnny Stearns, They met when they were both acting on Broadway in 1945. They fell in love and got married, My father soon realized that his skills were better at creating, Imaging new ideas, and working with people.
This led to his becoming the writer for the Mary Kay & Johnny Show. His inspiration was daily life, not just themselves but the entire building and neighborhood.
When my eldest brother (Christopher) was born, he became a regular on the show as well. - Both of my parents and my brother have IMDb.com web pages listing their credits.
I have none. - While The Mary Kay & Johnny Show was shown on the Du Mont Channel, programs were aired "live", so there are no recordings. However, there ARE one or two that were subsequently reproduced off of a Kinescope. It is Archived in the Library of Congress and the museum of a Television History.
- After leaving the Dumont Channel, my father went to WNBC in New York where he Produced the precursor to The Tonight Show. Next, he was the original Producer of the Tonight Show with Steve Allen and Producer with Jack Parr. At that point, he left WNBC for an entirely different industry: one with less 'back-stabbing' and one where he & my mother were able to travel internationally. They
Worked as a team and they LOVED it! - My folks were Happily married for 56 years. There are several Web Interviews of them for the Museum of Television if anyones's interested. It's all on YouTube.
- My Parents were Mary Kay & Johnny Stearns, They met when they were both acting on Broadway in 1945. They fell in love and got married, My father soon realized that his skills were better at creating, Imaging new ideas, and working with people.
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bojoh06 ā 11 years ago(June 23, 2014 08:17 PM)
The first postwar TV sets went on sale in 1946. 1946-1947 was also the first network TV season.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1946ā47_United_States_network_tel evision_schedule
I'll bet it was mostly only the rich that had tv sets at the time.
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