#1940s tv

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Start the week with a fun fact!

The first legal ad cost only $9 and ran for 9 seconds.

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The Pilot TV-37 “Candid” was introduced in 1948 at the then-amazingly low price of $99. Most 1940s TVs sold for hundreds of dollars, the cost of a decent automobile. Pilot made this set for only a few years but sold a lot of them during that time. You could get a magnifying lens to place in front of the picture tube for an additional fee. (Click to enlarge the picture.)

Originally posted January 9, 2014. | Tumblr Archive 

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The Lone Ranger (1949)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Television was a subject of hot speculation for years before it became a reality for most people. The June 1946 edition of Popular Science featured, prophetically, the top of the Empire State Building, where transmitters would indeed be installed in later years. (But they didn't look like that.)

Photo: The Classic Archives

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An Ode to Rosie | also known as the YouTube short that made me swooooooooooooooon

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Lucille Ball on her wedding to Desi Armaz - 1940

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[amethystamanda]

Horse Ranch radio as BG TV

My sims had the surprise season premiere holiday today, and I had the thought of, in a couple of decades, my sims gathering around the radio to listen to radio dramas for that. But I don't know of this radio being converted to a TV, so I made it, for when it's appropriate.

All 14 original swatches from the horse ranch vintage radio. Works just like a TV, except that there are no visual effects, including when it's broken--you'll need to click on it to see the repair/replace options--and sims can't play video games, because that seems a bit ridiculous so I removed it. They will still use the default remote/whichever override you have installed.

Sims can listen to their favourite broadcasts (shows and movies), and should act just as they would if it was a TV.

§500. Found under TVs. Tagged with the Vintage decor style. Colour tagged the same as the HR radio. Goes in small decor slots--you're responsible for making sure your sims can access it. NOT off the grid compatible.

Should be appropriate for anywhere from the 1910s (but rarely) to the 1940s (but probably not brand new), which is convenient since actual TVs became popular in the 1950s.

Download: https://simfileshare.net/download/4746364/

CC in the screenshots:

James Hair by @aladdin-the-simmer https://aladdin-the-simmer.tumblr.com/post/635130826713071617/james-hair-base-game-compatible-hat-compatible

Marjorie hair by @buzzardly28 https://buzzardly28.tumblr.com/post/704554762855743488/weekend-number-4-of-december-1910s-set-part-1

Vintage ringlets by @the-melancholy-maiden https://www.patreon.com/posts/vintage-ringlets-66568675

the PROMENADE dress by @gilded-ghosts https://www.patreon.com/posts/stately-set-59040275

Meet Kirsten by @linzlu https://linzlu.tumblr.com/post/660996937225502721/meet-kirsten-kirstens-meet-dress-was-one-of-my

[wordfromoursponsor]

“What is the future of television?” (1945)

[cressida-jayoungr]

One Dress a Day Challenge

July: Blue Redux (+ Green Redux)

Agent Carter (s2e10, "Hollywood Ending") / Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter

Another dress with cutout designs, much like the purple dress from earlier in the season. The bright blue-green edging of the belt, sleeves, and neck really makes the elements pop, and also, it suggests the line work of a comic book panel.

I also notice that this costume incorporates elements of Agent Carter's two most iconic looks (see below), but with a twist. Blue with touches of red is a signature color combination for her. This dress has the double stripe at the waist, but blue instead of red, and interrupted in front. It also has something red on top, but sunglasses instead of a hat. I doubt it is too much of a stretch to suspect this was deliberate.

[mydailyvintagephotos]

Remembering Jane Wyatt🌹🕊️

on her Birthday 🎂

✨August 12th 1910✨💫

[citizenscreen]

Lon Chaney Jr. performs a "Of Mice and Men" sketch on “Toast of the Town” in August 1948. Also pictures with host Ed Sullivan.

[arconinternet]

You Bet Your Life - a whole bunch of episodes (Videos, 1949-1960)

You can watch these episodes of the famous game show hosted by Groucho Marx here.

[broadcastarchive-umd]

#RudyTuesday Okay, so you’re a television station in the mid to late 1940s. You’ve got a 16mm copy of a movie you want to show. You’ve got a 16mm projector. And you’ve got a television camera. But how do we get them to work together?

How about a paper towel tube and some duct tape? No, wait! How about an old-fashioned camera bellows?

Pictured above is a Dumont projector attached to an Image Orthacon camera – an early version of a film chain.

One in a series of photos from the Rudy Bretz papers at UMD.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in its first television broadcast, March 20, 1948. The orchestra was conceived by NBC chief David Sarnoff especially for Toscanini. It debuted on radio and later moved to TV.

Photo: Associated Press via madison.com

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