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Film, Video Television

digital viewing copy

About this Item

Title

  • Television

Summary

  • Sponsored film promoting television sets and briefly explaining the technology and process. Demonstrates how mobile broadcast units work, and shows extended demonstration of cinematography of a live orchestra.

Names

  • Ullman, Frederic, 1903-1948, production
  • Radio Corporation of America
  • RKO Radio Pictures

Created / Published

  • United States : Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., 1939.

Headings

  • -  Television--Transmitters and transmission
  • -  Television--Production and direction

Genre

  • Sponsored films
  • Promotional films
  • Short films
  • Nonfiction films

Notes

  • -  Source used: National Film Preservation Foundation WWW site, viewed July 18, 2018.

Medium

  • 1 video file (digital, MPEG-4) (ca. 8 min.) : sd., b&w.

Source Collection

  • AFI/RKO Collection (Library of Congress)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018601406

Online Format

  • image
  • video

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Credit Line: Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division.

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Chicago citation style:

Radio Corporation Of America, and Rko Radio Pictures. Television. produceds by Ullman, Frederic, Uction United States: Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc, 1939. Video. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2018601406/.

APA citation style:

Radio Corporation Of America & Rko Radio Pictures. (1939) Television. Ullman, F., prod United States: Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2018601406/.

MLA citation style:

Radio Corporation Of America, and Rko Radio Pictures. Television. prod by Ullman, Frederic, Uction United States: Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc, 1939. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2018601406/>.