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New Release 2/12/10: Media History 5 DVD Set ValuePack: TV, Radio, Audio Recording & Newspaper History
Product Description
A Film Record Of The Media History Of The 20th Century On TV, On Radio, In Newspapers & In Audio Recordings - 48 Presentations Packed Into 13 Vintage Hours In The Complete 5 DVD All Regions Format Collector's Set!
Contents:
VOL. 1: TELEVISION BROADCAST HISTORY FILMS
The Creation, Innovation & Expansion Of The Televisual Medium - 2 ¾ Hours Of Vintage Historical Footage Packed Into 15 Films On 1 All Regions DVD!
KTLA: THE FIRST 35 YEARS (1982, 57:43)
One of the great gems of MediaOutlet.com is this station retrospective of the Los Angeles television broadcaster that was the first to do so many of the things in the field of television generally, and TV broadcast journalism especially, that we take for granted today. Brought to life in 1947 by the pioneer electrical engineer Klaus Landsberg, an escapee from Nazi Germany, KTLA Channel 5's stunning broadcast achievements includes Los Angeles' first commercial television transmission, starring Bob Hope; the first live remote news report, which was also the first time television scooped the press; the perfection of long distance remote TV broadcasts; the first remote broadcast of an unfolding personal tragedy when it covered the failed rescue attempts of three year old Kathy Fiscus, the first live broadcast of an atomic bomb test, a feat they repeated not long afterwards; the creation and use of the world's first telecopter, from which were broadcast extraordinary live televised coverage of the 1961 Bel Air fires, the 1963 bursting of the Baldwin Hills Reservoir Dam and the disaster it left in its wake; even the infamous 1965 Watts riots, during which they did spotting and reconnaisance for the L.A. Police Department while gunshots were aimed at the telecopter by rioters below. It was their news feed that informed the world when Khruschev came to town in 1959, when Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968, and when the 1971 earthquake struck Los Angeles. L.A.'s first commercial TV station was truly a pioneer in the limits of what television could achieve, and this is their proud story. Broadcast breaks contain plenty of classic commercials, featuring Bob Hope, Datsun, South California Gas Company, Channel For Men & more. Hosted by two of KTLA's own broadcast greats: Hal Fishman, America's longest-serving TV news anchor, and the Emmy Award winning "Dean" of L.A. TV News broadcasters, Stan Chambers.
A WELCOME GUEST IN THE HOUSE (1957, 23:29) The National Association of Broadcasters sponsored this film as a testimonial to the power of television in its service to the citizenry during the Cold War.
AN RCA PRESENTATION: TELEVISION (1939, 9:03)
Vintage footage of one of the earliest filmed promotions for the use of television, filled with footage of primitive TV studios at NBC's Rockefeller Center facilities, thought to have been produced to coincide with regularly scheduled coverage of the New York World's fair that same year.
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL: KENNEDY ON TELSTAR - EUROPE SEES NEWS CONFERENCE (JULY 23RD 1962, 1:18)
National prestige soars as the U.S. orbits the fist modern communications satellite into orbit and uses it to broadcast a presidential press conference to Europe.
MAGIC IN THE AIR (1941, 7:58)
Widely considered the most classic of OTR films, this extraordinary document chronicles the birth and growth of the world's first commercial radio network with a behind-the-scenes tour of their Radio City & Rockefeller Center facilities in New York City and recourse to many time honored film clips of all things radiophonic.
MAGIC IN THE AIR (1955, 8:12)
GMC so liked the 1941 version of this film that it had its Public Relations department re-release it with update modifications fourteen years later!
NEW SEVEN FUNCTION REMOTE CONTROL FOR COLOR (1959, 3:24)
Silent piece on a very early version of the tv remote.
PROGRAMMER WITH MAGIC MEMORY: ANOTHER NEWSMAKER (1959, 4:00)
Another silent piece, this one on the "Magic Memory" tv autotuner.
RADIO AND TELEVISION (1940, 10:30)
Vocational Guidance Films sponsored this effort to help educate its audience about the wide variety of technical jobs that were available not only in the now time-honored field of radio broadcasting & receiving but also the fledgling vocation of television. Though it's intended to instruct its viewers about employment opportunities contemporary to its time, it teaches us in our day a great deal about communications operations in its day.
TELEVISION REMOTE CONTROL (1961, 5:46)
Today, the remote we use to channel surf is as much a part of life in the first world as any other appliance we lay our hands on - for some, much more. But in 1961, this was something new & big - and RCA Victor wanted everyone to know about it, and this film is the result.
ARMY/NAVY SCREEN MAGAZINE: TELEVISION TOMORROW (1945, 12:17)
Excellent primer on the future of technology and employment opportunities in television broadcasting, as shown to military servicemen returning from wartime duty, as seen from the vantage point of the beginning of the television age.
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL: TELSTAR BRINGS WORLD CLOSER (1962, B&W, 3:17)
The world's first commercial "comsat" (communications satellite) is sent into orbit, transmits the first television picture to and from space, and becomes the vanguard of many other such telstars which enabled continuous global telephone, data, television and other communications.
THE REASONS WHY (1959, 26:45)
Lovely color film entertainingly and informatively demonstrating the television manufacturing process at RCA's plant in Camden, New Jersey.
THE HILLSBOROUGH WITH NEW HIDEAWAY STYLING (1959, 2:30)
A concluding silent piece on a console television that folded into a piece of furniture that disguised its real purpose.
THE STORY OF TELEVISION (1956, 14:50)
RCA's attempt to tell the history of this new medium at a point itself rather early in its history, and it shows - in all the right ways. Of course, RCA is responsible for it all - at least, that's what this film tends to try to say. It did have something to say besides all this, though - the era of color television had arrived - and yes, RCA was responsible for that, too. Filled with education about and demonstration of historical firsts, it's a treat for media history buff & baby-boomer viewer alike.
TOMORROW ALWAYS COMES (1941, 28:53)
The intention of this film, made as it was by the Manhattan Undergarment Company, was to sell rayon lingerie. In the process, it also unintentionally resulted in the documentation of live television broadcasting in its very infancy, CBS style, in the form of a fashion show featuring rayon lingerie products!
VOL. 2: RADIO BROADCAST HISTORY FILMS
The Creation, Innovation & Expansion Of Man's First Broadcast Medium - 3 Hours Of Vintage Historical Footage Packed Into 13 Films On 1 All Regions DVD!
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL DECEMBER 22ND 1958: ATLAS IN ORBIT - RADIOS IKE'S MESSAGE OF PEACE TO WORLD (1958, B&W, 3:38)
A classic example of newsreel propaganda at its most crafted, touting the sophistication of America's most powerful launch vehicle and celebrating the historic first of broadcasting a voice message from space to the world. This achievement was made more significant by the fact that this Christmas message of President Eisenhower was transmitted from earth to the Project SCORE satellite built into orbiting Atlas and then rebroadcast from Atlas/SCORE to the people of the earth further on in its orbit, originating the process known as "store and forward" which is still in use today and marking SCORE as the world's first communications satellite.
BACK OF THE MIKE (1938, 9:15)
General Motor's Chevrolet Division sponsored this behind-the-scenes documentary coverage of the live performance of a radio western, played out in the context of the imagery produced by a little boy listening imagination. Great venue for viewing how radio productions, especially sound effects, were actually performed. Watch & see why Chevrolet decided to sponsor this particular film!
BEHIND YOUR RADIO DIAL: THE STORY OF NBC (1947, 24:04)
Widely considered the most classic of OTR films, this extraordinary document chronicles the birth and growth of the world's first commercial radio network with a behind-the-scenes tour of their Radio City & Rockefeller Center facilities in New York City and recourse to many time honored film clips of all things radiophonic.
COMMUNICATION: A FILM LESSON IN GENERAL SCIENCE / DEVELOPMENT OF COMMUNICATION (1927, 13:04)
A treat of a film, much venerated on a number of accounts, not least of all for its demonstrating and explaining all the communication technologies extant during this seminal period in media history.
HEAR AND NOW (1958, 18:04)
Superb historical survey over all the highlights of world history as covered by radio, and a key to understanding daily life then and during the cold war era wherein this film was produced.
INDEPENDENT RADIO STATION (1951, 18:02)
The U.S. Army sponsored this film documenting the operations of WMCA, a radio station much beloved by baby boomers of the New York Metropolitan area, in an effort to encapsulate the significance of locally & independently owned & operated radio stations that were the norm of the era.
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL JULY 23RD 1962: KENNEDY ON TELSTAR - EUROPE SEES NEWS CONFERENCE (1962, B&W, 1:17)
The president proudly comments upon the achievements of the first commercial communications satellite as part of a press conference broadcast from the Telstar satellite to Europe.
ON THE AIR (1937, 9:53)
GMC's Chevrolet Division is at it again with radio, this time it seeks, very successfully, to explain just how radio in 1937 worked, from the microphone to the radio set, and all the steps of broadcasting its signal over the airwaves straight from the point of transmission out to the point of reception.
RADIO AND TELEVISION (1940, 10:30)
Vocational Guidance Films sponsored this effort to help educate its audience about the wide variety of technical jobs that were available not only in the now time-honored field of radio broadcasting & receiving but also the fledgling vocation of television. Though it's intended to instruct its viewers about employment opportunities contemporary to its time, it teaches us in our day a great deal about communications operations in its day.
RADIO AT WAR (1944, 20:36)
Unique film illustrating how radio and its associate communications was critical to the conduct and winning of World War II.
UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL JULY 12TH 1962: A DAY IN HISTORY - TELSTAR BRINGS WORLD CLOSER (1962, B&W, 3:17)
The world's first commercial "comsat" (communications satellite) is sent into orbit, transmits the first television picture to and from space, and becomes the vanguard of many other such telstars which enabled continuous global telephone, data, television and other communications.
THE BIG BOUNCE (1960, TECHNICOLOR, 14:23)
The extraordinary story of Echo, history's second communications satellite, which consisted of a huge balloon placed into orbit and off of which were bounced radio signals aimed at from earth, which technique ultimately resulted Echo's helping place the very first satellite telephone call.
VOICE OF VICTORY (1944, 27:14) Shows how radio in general, and propaganda broadcasting in particular, played their part to win the victory in WWII. An excellent addition to any WWII propaganda collection.
VOL. 3: AUDIO RECORDING HISTORY FILMS
Classic Audio Innovation Films Of The 1940s & 1950s - 7 Vintage Films Packed Into 3 Historic Hours On 1 All Regions DVD!
A REVOLUTIONARY NEW TRIUMPH IN TAPE (1958, 14:54)
Before there was the diminutive audio cassette, there was this enormous predecessor, which for all its obscurity laid the technological groundwork for high quality miniaturization of future audio components and formats. But first, a showing of LIVING STEREO, featured later on in this DVD, introduces the subject of hi-fidelity sound.
A VISIT TO WURLITZER (1950, 40:19)
The classic color manufacturing film of the cold war era, giving the viewer a tour of the famed Wurlitzer "coin-operated phonograph" (a.k.a. "jukebox") factory of North Tonawanda, N. Y. and showing off its facilities, location and manufacturing processes.
COMMAND PERFORMANCE (1942, 18:58)
Made at a time when the 78 RPM phonograph record was in its heyday and serving worldwide to keep morale high during the Second World War, this extraordinary film illuminates exactly how phonograph records were created, starting from the recording studio through the creation of master discs all the way to the the finished phonograph product on the factory floor.
HOW TO LISTEN TO...NEW DIMENSIONS IN SOUND (1957, 17:44)
RCA proudly unveils its innovation in audio, stereo sound and hi-fidelity reproduction. What we nowadays consider to be the audio quality that makes a recording sound "modern" originated in this extraordinary technological advance.
LIVING STEREO (1958, 7:42)
Take a ride through a record groove as the grooviness takes you up, down & all around another filmed example of the pride of RCA circa late 1950s, the stereophonic recording.
THE SOUND AND THE STORY (1956, 58:50)
RCA's lucid, detailed explanation on how the long playing 33 1/3 "LP" vinyl record recording, the medium through which the world first heard high-fidelity a.k.a. "Hi-Fi" sound, was produced, recorded, and manufactured.
SOUND RECORDING AND REPRODUCTION (SOUND ON FILM) (1943, 10:39)
An excellent explanation of how sound recordings are put onto motion picture film with plenty of great and easy-to-understand diagrams and clever animations.
VOL. 4: NEWSPAPER HISTORY FILMS
The Print Medium's Daily News Press From Field Reportage To Home Delivery - Nearly 3 Hours Of Vintage Historical Footage Packed Into 9 Films On 1 All Regions DVD!
17 DAYS: THE STORY OF NEWSPAPER IN THE MAKING (1945, 16:33)
Remember that famous newsreel clip of New York City's Mayor LaGuardia reading the Dick Tracy comic strip to kids during a newspaper strike? Well, here it is, right from the source it comes from, in this film documentation of the Big Apple's 1945 newspaper delivery driver strike and the extraordinary lengths people would go to get their newspapers.
DATELINE: LONG ISLAND (1950s, 43:30)
The history and operations of Newsday, Long Island's newspaper, with footage as much about the geographical market of the paper as it is the exposition of the newspapers manifold operations.
TREES TO TRIBUNES (1937, 19:56 Sound/25:15 Silent)
The Chigaco Tribune presentation that's really two films in one - an 1937 sound film documentating the production of news print from the forest to the factory floor, and a silent film of an earlier era capturing the rest of the process of producing a paper, from reporting staff to editors to mass scale printing and finally to the subscriber's door.
GOOD NEIGHBORS (1944, 21:54)
An engaging Minneapolis Star Journal And Tribune wartime presentation exhibitin the people and technology behind the newspaper's daily operations and its contributions to the life of their community.
JOURNALISM (1940, 10:38)
The "'write'" stuff of the cosmos of U. S. journalism immediately prior to American participation in World War II, chronicling what was expected of writers and editors during the prime time days of print.
NEWSPAPER STORY (1950, 37:00)
Encyclopedia Britannica's clear and complete explanation of how a single story goes through all series of processes to end up as a story in your delivered paper.
PRINTING (1947, 10:41)
A Vocational Guidance Films, Inc. presentation on the variety of entry-level jobs available in printing operations to students entering the work force.
SPOT NEWS (1937, 9:15)
A celebration of the wonders of the wire transmission of photos and its permanent impact on print media.
TRIBUNE-AMERICAN DREAM PICTURE (1924, Silent, 7:25)
An endearing but by any measure bizarre silent reel by the Oakland Tribune-American which makes into the film the winning entry in the paper's "Most Unusual Dream" contest.
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