November 2012
Beginner
280 pages
11h 11m
English
Television: “the art of distant seeing … the possibilities of the new art are as boundless as the imagination.”
—David Sarnoff, 1927
There’s nothing on it worthwhile, and we’re not going to watch it in this household, and I don’t want it in your intellectual diet.
—Philo T. Farnsworth, one of television’s inventors, to his children
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TV: Past, Present — and Future |
This Chapter’s Talking Points
| I. | Television Is a Unique Medium |
| II. | How TV Works |
| III. | The Impact of Human Vision on TV |
| IV. | The Creators of Television |
| V. | Television’s Evolution |
| VI. | Television’s Transitions — From the 1920s to the Present |
| VII. | Summary |
| VIII. | Chapter Review ... |
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