Comments on: The Middleton Family at the New York World’s Fair, 1939 http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-middleton-family-a-the-new-your-worlds-fair-1939/ Just another WordPress site Fri, 10 May 2013 18:58:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Chris Garcia http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-middleton-family-a-the-new-your-worlds-fair-1939/#comment-187 Chris Garcia Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:11:05 +0000 http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/?p=1984#comment-187 Nitrate film was still widely used into the 1950s. There were folks I would talk to who were projectionists dating to the 30s who still swore that they thought the images off of safety film were dull and muted compared to Nitrate! Chris Nitrate film was still widely used into the 1950s. There were folks I would talk to who were projectionists dating to the 30s who still swore that they thought the images off of safety film were dull and muted compared to Nitrate!
Chris

]]> By: curtis_jones http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-middleton-family-a-the-new-your-worlds-fair-1939/#comment-186 curtis_jones Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:02:16 +0000 http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/?p=1984#comment-186 East coast - West coast! The film gives KDKA credit for the first regularly scheduled broadcasts. Here in San Jose Charles and Sybil Herrold were broadcasting weekly from 1909 (or 1910). http://charlesherrold.org/ I'd like to have seen more of the television camera shown on the movie (and also the oscilloscope!). There's no hint of the controversy over how much of Vladimir Zworykin's ideas for the iconoscope tube he developed at Westinghouse came from Philo Farnsworth. East coast – West coast!

The film gives KDKA credit for the first regularly scheduled broadcasts. Here in San Jose Charles and Sybil Herrold were broadcasting weekly from 1909 (or 1910).
http://charlesherrold.org/

I’d like to have seen more of the television camera shown on the movie (and also the oscilloscope!). There’s no hint of the controversy over how much of Vladimir Zworykin’s ideas for the iconoscope tube he developed at Westinghouse came from Philo Farnsworth.

]]> By: curtis_jones http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/the-middleton-family-a-the-new-your-worlds-fair-1939/#comment-185 curtis_jones Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:52:31 +0000 http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/?p=1984#comment-185 Nitrate film - in 1939? From http://archive.org/details/middleton_family_worlds_fair_1939 "1939, sound, 55 min, Technicolor, 35mm. Transferred from a 35mm nitrate print." It was a pleasant surprise to see that the same page has a link to a professor at San Jose State with some more material on The Middletons. http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/middleton/index.html Nitrate film – in 1939? From http://archive.org/details/middleton_family_worlds_fair_1939
“1939, sound, 55 min, Technicolor, 35mm. Transferred from a 35mm nitrate print.”

It was a pleasant surprise to see that the same page has a link to a professor at San Jose State with some more material on The Middletons. http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/middleton/index.html

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