Mary Astor ("The Maltese Falcon" (1941), Headlines this Rom-Com-Drama about a Private Inventor (Lyle Talbot) on the Cusp of Completing a Working Television Transmitter-Receiver.
Nat Pendleton, Shows Up as a "Bill-Collector" Demanding Money from the Broke Electrical-Engineer.
A Sort of Mad-Cap Romp Ensues as Criminals and White-Collar Types get Wind of the New Discovery and some Mayhem Manifests with Joyce Compton, Astor's Roommate, Joining in to Round Out the Romance, all Familiar Stuff with the Interesting Point of "TV" at the Center.
It's a Big-Clunky Behemoth Camera and the Receiver is about a 40 inch Flat Screen. The Demos Include a "Football Game", a Furious Fist-Fight, and Ends with some Hugs.
All Kind of Foreshadowing Exactly what the "Boob-Tube" would Showcase as it Made its Way into the Living-Rooms of America.
The Movies that Used the "Television-Gimmick" were all Fluff-Piece B-Movies, but are Worth a Watch to See the Genesis of the "Idiot-Box" in its Infancy.
Television would have had an Earlier Landing in Mid-America, but the War Held Up Production.
Financing and Science were used for Other War-Winning Technology.
No One Could Figure Out How to Use TV as a Weapon...
That would come Later in the "Cold-War" in the Battlefield Known as of "Mind-Control".
Nat Pendleton, Shows Up as a "Bill-Collector" Demanding Money from the Broke Electrical-Engineer.
A Sort of Mad-Cap Romp Ensues as Criminals and White-Collar Types get Wind of the New Discovery and some Mayhem Manifests with Joyce Compton, Astor's Roommate, Joining in to Round Out the Romance, all Familiar Stuff with the Interesting Point of "TV" at the Center.
It's a Big-Clunky Behemoth Camera and the Receiver is about a 40 inch Flat Screen. The Demos Include a "Football Game", a Furious Fist-Fight, and Ends with some Hugs.
All Kind of Foreshadowing Exactly what the "Boob-Tube" would Showcase as it Made its Way into the Living-Rooms of America.
The Movies that Used the "Television-Gimmick" were all Fluff-Piece B-Movies, but are Worth a Watch to See the Genesis of the "Idiot-Box" in its Infancy.
Television would have had an Earlier Landing in Mid-America, but the War Held Up Production.
Financing and Science were used for Other War-Winning Technology.
No One Could Figure Out How to Use TV as a Weapon...
That would come Later in the "Cold-War" in the Battlefield Known as of "Mind-Control".