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Old 18th Sep 2018, 8:01 pm   #1
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Default Television set in 1939 film

Here's the 'television' seen in the 1939 film, as recently reported in the letters column of the BVWS Bulletin.

It doesn't look very convincing, but did any pre-war sets have a cabinet like this?

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Old 18th Sep 2018, 9:42 pm   #2
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The perfectly square edges that don't quite match the frame look like a matte shot, which isn't surprising given the difficulties in filming an actual TV screen convincingly.
I suppose the set is supposed to be a projection jobby.

Do you have the name of the film?
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Old 18th Sep 2018, 10:36 pm   #3
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Do you have the name of the film?
This was in the BVWS Bulletin letter. You have a PM.

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The television screen image is completely square with the frame of the film where it should be transformed to a parallelogram shape. I think it's just a rather poor simulation of a television set. I also think the suggestion in the Bulletin that it might be the first appearance of a working television in film is highly unlikely. For example the 1936 film "Television Comes to London" has a simulated image on a television monitor screen.

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I believe there are simulated television 'pictures' in several episodes of 'Flash Gordon'. J.
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Old 19th Sep 2018, 8:41 am   #6
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Two other films of the period with 'television' displays that come to mind:

"Things To Come" (1936).

"Band Waggon" (1940) where we even see Jasmine Bligh on the screen!
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...and of course Modern Times.
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