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Date Posted: 08:54:08 10/06/11 Thu
Author: Officer Torch
Subject: Re: Favorite FG and BR moments with the televisor
In reply to: Rick 's message, "Favorite FG and BR moments with the televisor" on 02:57:13 10/05/11 Wed

I'm gonna make a blanket statement and say all of them, in FG trilogy, and in BR. The users of these "televisors" (sometimes, name changed, but it was basically like early TV). The users, usually Ming, Kane, always seemed interested in these. I noticed they didn't keep them on long...did their business, then turned it off, maybe to extend life of device. An earlier serial had this device, 1935s The Phantom Empire. There is a unique old film..a musical review with 2 process color & third derived. Paul Whiteman...1930, The Jazz King. It also had swirling effect on screen we see later sometimes, in serials, Looney Tunes also!

Most TV actual pix tubes were round in consumer TVs up until about early 60s. Tops and bottoms of faceplate (escutcheon) were usually chopped off a bit in late 40s. By later 60s, most had actual rectangular shape pix tube, 4 to 3 ratio like 35mm film. Over time, pix tubes got narrower. By 2000, we had flat widescreens (Vistavision width, LCD, plasma, now LED types). I always took an interest in scenes with early TV...am sure audiences marvelled at them back then.

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[> Re: Favorite FG and BR moments with the televisor -- Tim, 23:23:00 10/15/11 Sat [1]

Looking around online I see something called a televisor also appeared in the serial Brick Bradford (1947). The cast includes Wheeler Oakman (Tarnak from Trip to Mars).

In 1947 the idea of device similar to a television would not have seemed as novel as it did in FG and other serials of the 1930s. By 1948 the Texaco Star Theater with Milton Berle was on television, and by 1950 shows like Jack Benny and Burns and Allen were on the tube.

Sergeant Tim

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