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Old 20th Oct 2006, 5:38 pm   #1
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Default Pre War German Television DVD and various links

I thought other forum members who have not seen this DVD may like to know about it:

http://www.amazon.com/Television-Und...?ie=UTF8&s=dvd

It's a Region 1 NTSC disc, so you need to make sure you can play them before you consider buying it, but it is well worth getting. It contains a wealth of vintage archive material and you get to see pre-war TV sets in the old footage and even a surviving pre-war TV camera from the German system. It's a fascinating glimpse in to the German pre-war television service.

Does anyone happen to know if any of the pre-war German TV sets have survived? I get the impression from the footage that they were not on sale to the public, so I imagine there were not as many as there were in this country. What standard were they using?

All in all a fascinating DVD well worth reviewing.

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Old 20th Oct 2006, 8:47 pm   #2
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Default Re: Television Under The Swastika - Pre War German Television

Pre-war German television was very advanced. It was run under the German Post Office, so no sets were sold to the public. People would go to viewing rooms to watch. The E1 Volkfernseher or Peoples Television set was to go on sale to the public in 1939 but this never happened due to the war. This set is the earliest known use of flyback EHT and a square, flat faced CRT in production. About 50 are thought to have been built. Steve McVoy has a database of surviving sets at http://www.earlytelevision.org/prewar_database.html. Surprisingly many sets have survived.

The 1936 sets made for the Olymics were 180 line progress scan. The later sets were 441 line interlaced. While tweaking my standards converter for the pre-war German 441 line standards, I obtained a copy of a great promotional film made in 1939 for the International Telegraph Congress in Buenos Aires by the German Post Office. It shows off the technology of German television at the time including studio equipment and a working E1. The story is wrapped around a crime drama of a hit and run accident which is solved through the aid of television. It is quite fascinating to watch. Steve has posted a copy of it on his site at http://www.earlytelevision.org/rca_p...html#who-drove.

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Old 21st Oct 2006, 2:44 pm   #3
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Default Re: Television Under The Swastika - Pre War German Television

There used to be a very nice museum in the base of the Funkturm (radio tower) in Berlin but the last time I went there it was closed for repairs.

They had a very good collection of all the famous pre-war German televisions. This may have moved to :
http://www.drm-berlin.de/uebersicht/...blikation.html

I have selected the publication page because the book FERNSEHEN – VON DER VISION ZUM PROGRAMM covers most of that television collection.

A small part of the television collection was in http://www.dtmb.de/ when I vistited it last. This is a really excellent museum
for techys of all types. Railways are well represented. It's based in an old railway maintenance depot.

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