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Seeing the 'Wonder Machine' for the First Time... (Delineator, 1937)
During November of 1936, from high atop the 62nd floor of the RCA Building in New York the television pioneers of the Radio Corporation of America saw fit to invite numerous members of the press to witness one of their first broadcasts. Jessie Wiley Voils of "Delineator" was present and this was her reaction:"In the semi-darkness we sat in tense silence waiting to see the premiere demonstration of television...Television! What would it be like? I remembered how miraculous the first radios seemed...Suddenly, there in the lid of the wonder machine appeared the small but clear image of Betty Goodwin, television announcer, sent out on the air from the Empire State Building dome. Over intervening skyscrapers it had found its way, penetrating the thick walls of the RCA Building...Miss Goodwin introduced David Sarnoff, president of RCA and from the 7.5 by 10 inch screen he bowed and smiled..."
| Color Television: Hand Maiden to Art... (Art Digest, 1945)
Attached you will read an editorial comment written by art critic and historian Clayton Boswell. Boswell articulately expressed the great hope that the art world had emotionally invested in the invention of color television:
"This is what the art world has been waiting for - in the meantime struggling with the futility of attempting to describe verbally visual objects over the air. Now art on the television will be on par footing with music. And what radio has done in spreading the appreciation of good music will be duplicated with fine art...Then indeed will Andrew Carnegie's dream of progress through education come true."
| TELEVISION: God's Gift to Hollywood (Script, 1938)
In 1938 it was clear to the ink-slinger who penned this two-pager that the Deity of the Electronic Impulse had created another gift for all humanity to enjoy and abuse: it was called TELEVISION - and it was clear to this writer, at least, that the natural home for this gift from On High should be Hollywood, California.
| Television: The Hollywood Enigma (Photoplay, 1938)
In his own charming and verbose way, culture critic Gilbert Seldes takes his time answering the question as to whether movies and radio will be shown the door by the television broadcast industry:"Whenever people ask me whether television will take the place of the movies, I blush, pant rapidly, stammer, and finally manage to ask them if whether they think the automobile will ever take the place of the horse. To which they reply (if they reply at all) that the motor car has already taken the place of the horse, which is exactly what I want them to say...the car has replaced the horse; but even that was a long and tedious process."
| BBC Television Broadcasting Begins (Literary Digest, 1935)
The British Broadcasting Corporation announced that they were capable of transmitting television programming as early as 1935:
"The British engineers plan to begin with a single broadcasting tower, capable of transmitting television images to receiving sets within a radius of about thirty miles...British engineers are not the first to try television broadcasting. A station has been operating regularly in Berlin for several months."
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