David Sarnoff of RCA makes predictions regarding telecommunications and consumer electronics during a filming in New York. Television crew at work. Boom moving microphone. Cameraman at work. Sarnoff speaks and says newspapers, mails, magazines and mails will be sent through air at lightning speed and reproduced at home (could be seen as foreshadowing or predicting facsimile use and the Internet). He speaks about pocket size radio instruments enabling people to communicate with anyone anywhere (possible early forecast of portable radio proliferation, and later cell phone, mobile phone, smartphone, and mobile device usage). Cameraman and boom operator at work. Close up view of motion picture camera front and camera lenses.
A family watches television at home in New York. Family members watch television at home. Woman, girl and a boy look at television screen. Girl laughs as she watches television. Woman seated on sofa watches television. Man smokes pipe. Television screen on set.
First color television broadcast from Columbia Broadcasting Systems. Color Television Monitor Tube photographed at the National Guard Armory in Washington DC. Television broadcast shows "Patty Painter," (real name Patricia Stinnette) displaying colored pieces of cloth. (Note: Reportedly, the U.S. Naval photographic unit that did these tests tried to record color images from all three of the proposed color systems at the time: the CBS field-sequential system, RCA's dot-sequential system and CTI's line-sequential system.)
Publication and aerial distribution of propaganda newspapers and leaflets in Italy by United States aimed at German troops during World War II. A man reads 'Frontpost' newspaper as it comes off press. Papers go through press. Worker seated in front of press.
Aerial distribution of propaganda newspapers and leaflets from Italy by United States aimed at German troops during World War II. U.S. airmen stack wrapped newspapers on plane. Newspapers are unloaded from a truck. Airmen stands near plane. Same plane in flight.
U.S. aircraft in Italy during aerial distribution of propaganda newspapers in World War II. Aircraft in flight. Interiors of aircraft shows waist gunner operating gun. Pilot in cockpit. Pilot at nose turret of plane.
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