Here are some interesting images, and articles from the day, I think you will appreciate. Notice the date on the sign in the third photo down, is almost one year earlier at the ground breaking
Going back to 1931, the names Farnsworth and Zworykin ring out as the editors of BROADCASTING MAGAZINE present a special 320 page, 1981 edition that takes in an amazing array of “firsts” in broadcasting!
A fascinating 27 page report on the CBS color facility in New York, Studio 72, from May of 1955.
This short article in Popular Science is about the early home video tape offerings. It’s a long way from there to where we got with Beta and VHS.
The more of this old stuff we see, the more the new ideas seem “not so new”, don’t they?
