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People watch Dodger-Giant baseball game and horse racing on TV, 1950

1950 newsreel clip on growth of the television industry in the United States. Announcer notes the popularity of athletic events on TV (especially baseball) . Shots of game between Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants at the Giants' stadium, the Polo Grounds. Vintage TV cameras marked 'WPIX' capture the action. #36 Don Newcombe of the Dodgers pitches to #12 Eddie Stanky of the Giants. Cameras transmit game to TV control center, which sends signal to home antennas. Woman and three boys seen watching television broadcast of the game at home on a small 1950s-era TV in a family living room. Scene shifts to horse racing, with camera marked NBC WNBT capturing an unknown horse race. Men at bar seen watching the race.

Date: 1950
Duration: 2 min 16 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076546
American children watching a puppet show on television in the United States.

A documentary on the growth of television industry in the United States. Children watching television in a family living room. Telecast of several children shows on the television. Children watching a puppet show. Views of boys smiling and laughing as they enjoy a television show. Narrator extols the virtues of television for entertaining and educating children. Narrator notes that televisions are being used in classrooms in schools and that its uses for teachers are "limitless."

Date: 1950
Duration: 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076547
Students at the New York University learn the technical and creative aspects of television in the United States.

A documentary on the growth and opportunities in television industry in the United States. Students at the New York University listening to a classroom lecture on how television signals are transmitted and received. Professor instructs the college students on the technical aspects of television, including an iconoscope. A class at NYU conducted in tandem with a local televsion studio briefs students interested in the creative side of television. Studio equipment is demonstrated including lights, microphone boom stands, and television cameras The equipment and the method of production and recordings are demonstrated. 'WPIX television' written on cameras. Students are coached in using the equipment, while other students prepare to stage a play for television that was written by one of the students. The director meeting with the student actors. Views of the play being filmed for television. Men working on television studio transmission equipment.

Date: 1950
Duration: 3 min 43 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076548
Students film the event as President Harry Truman dedicates the United Nations building in New York.

A documentary on the growth of television industry in the United States. President Harry Truman dedicates the United Nations building in New York. The students filming the event. Exterior of the building. People gather in a large number near the building. President Truman addressing people. Several officials and dignitaries present for the occasion. The telecast of the event in many countries.

Date: 1950
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675076549
The coverage of satellite Sputnik I during the Project 'Cateye' on a TV screen at Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio.

Coverage of the satellite, Sputnik I at Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio. The Project 'Cateye' being undertaken. The project is dealing with light amplification. Film shows the satellite moving slowly across the TV screen in a darkened room.

Date: 1957, October 11
Duration: 1 min 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076560
Men working on the construction of the skeleton hull of Fleet Ballistic missile submarine in Groton, Connecticut.

Construction of Fleet Ballistic missile submarines in Groton, Connecticut. Skeleton hull of submarine under construction. Small hatch opening in the submarine. A man welds under the far side of the hatch in the hull. Cross bracings in the skeleton hull of the submarine. A worker uses a cutting torch and works on the submarine.

Date: 1958, August 22
Duration: 2 min 8 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675076565