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Was television in many homes in 1936? Or even 1951? How were these messages broadcast? For matter of comparison, my country did not get its first television br
by dotancohen 3y ago
Was television in many homes in 1936? Or even 1951? How were these messages broadcast?
For matter of comparison, my country did not get its first television broadcasting station until 1967.
- jazzyjackson 3y agoI can only go by Back to the Future, in 1955 marty's middle class ancestors are proud of their color TV, and scoff when marty says he's got 2 of em, "Nobody has two television sets." 1936 would have been the earliest TV broadcasts ever - the Berlin Olympics ! According to wiki the only viewers would have been in locations set up around the city just for the event. So now I am quite keen to find out what context these videos were meant to be watched EDIT: oh, it's in OPs link: "This short subject newsreel was shown in movie theaters the week before a town's or region's telephone exchange was to be converted to dial service. "
- omnibrain 3y agoI suppose in cinemas. Before the feature. Like the news at the time with the Newsreel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsreel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsreel
- dredmorbius 3y agoAs others have noted, the first of these videos was distributed as a newsreel, playing before feature films in towns as AT&T rolled out direct-dial. I don't know how the second was distributed, though Wikipedia suggests newsreels continued in mainstream until the late 1960s, which would suggest that the 1951 video also saw newsreel distribution as a primary mechanism. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsreel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsreel>