This four-page interview found Philo at age 33 and comes four years after his first major interview above. By now, he and Mr. Sarnoff are probably well acquainted.
Here are two very interesting articles with great pictures to show what it took to make people look ‘normal’ in the early years. Wow!
On this day in 1952, The Colonial Theater broadcast it’s first color production to the network. Fittingly, the show was NBC’s top rated Saturday night program, “Your Show Of Shows”, but it was a one time event. At least for “YSOS”, as it was NBC’s intent to rotate all of their New York based shows […]
Thanks to his daughter, we are proud to display a totally unique piece of television history through the eyes of her dad…the man Ed Sullivan most trusted to make him look his best, the entire run of the Ed Sullivan Show. His name is George Moses and here is the scrapbook he made.
This was a step up from the Iconoscope in it’s light sensitivity, but it was a remote camera and still needed daylight, or stadium lighting. The Orthicon was a hybrid of sorts, needing the added utility of Philo Farnsworth’s Image Dissector tube technology, which was finally incorporated into the Image Orthicon a few years later. […]