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People at the Illinois State fair and various sporting and entertainment events in Illinois, United States, in the late 1940s
Film about the state of Illinois in the United States. People enter a building for the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Illinois. People in the fair. Amusement rides, swings and people in a bus. Farmers walk with cattle. Children participate in 4-H club livestock competitions. A farmer near his blue ribbon winning cow. A girl near her sheep who won a blue ribbon. Children on a miniature train. Harness racing at a horse racing track in Illinois. Sports cars driven during an automobile race on a dirt track. Interior view of upper deck in double decker passenger train car with passengers enjoying the view through windows and a conductor punching tickets; Abraham Lincoln birth home cabin; View of statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Illinois State Capitol building. The SS City of Grand Rapids ferry ship of the Cleveland & Buffalo Steamship Company passing by on Lake Michigan with Wrigley Building in background.
The Indian PM Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and the China State Council Premier Zhou Enlai review Honor guard and the riots in India.
The Prime Minister and Head of the Interim Government of India Jawaharlal Nehru and riots in India. Indian Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru arrives with other officials. Bombed and damaged buildings. A policeman fires rifle. Dead bodies on the road. The dead body of a child. People carry belongings and leave homes. People in a protest rally. The Premier of the State Council of China Zhou Enlai arrives in a aircraft and is greeted by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. He reviews the honor guard.
Pioneer of American commercial radio and television, David Sarnoff, makes future predictions in New York.
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 and mobile device usage). Cameraman and boom operator at work. Close up view of motion picture camera front and camera lenses.
Members of family watch television at home in New York.
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 using the CBS color method is photographed at the National Guard Armory in Washington, D.C.
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.)
Color Guard marching as the Constellation aircraft takes off after the visit of U.S. Army Secretary Kenneth C Royall in Japan.
U.S. Army Secretary Kenneth C Royall visits Japan. Constellation aircraft getting ready to take off. Honor Guard standing in formation. The aircraft taxis away towards the take off strip. The aircraft takes off. Army band playing music in the background. Color Guard marching. Cars arrive at the air base.
