How TV Works

Duration: 400 ft.

Year Published: 1940

Complete Record: MS of hand flipping TV channels. Woman in commercial displaying stove. Cut to the set where commercial is being filmed. Diagrams and drawings of how the electricity works to make television. MS of man juggling a ball, a racquet and Frisbee. CU of a synch generator (a piece of electronic equipment with lots of knobs). CU of TV monitor, slowing showing how the beams are scanned to create the image. Another shot of the juggler. Pan over a city scape. MS of a transmitter tower. MS of juggler on the television. Then a shot of him being filmed.