Oh-so-obsolete: the DuMont television network скачать в хорошем качестве

Oh-so-obsolete: the DuMont television network

Dumont Network IDs from 1948 - 1952 More info about DuMont and its pioneering programming:    • Kinescope Theatre: CAPTAIN VIDEO! Worst sc...   This was the first sci-fi serial, which started in 1948 and was crude beyond imagining, but magical back then. According to Wikipedia, CAPTAIN VIDEO featured "often incoherent scripts, along with jarring plot shifts to old cowboy movies. According to most records, the show's ‘prop budget’ was a miserly $25 per week. Captain Video's ‘mountaintop headquarters’ was a drawing on a 4” x 4” piece of cardboard on an easel. The Opticon Scillometer gadget was made out of a car muffler, a mirror, a spark plug, and an ashtray. The interior of Captain Video's spaceship, the Galaxy, was made entirely of cardboard with the instruments and dials painted onto the cardboard. As a result of there being so few surviving episodes, it is not clear what time period the series is set in, if it can be set in any concrete time frame at all." As for the “so few surviving episodes”, there’s an explanation for that, too: "DuMont's entire film archive, consisting of kinescopes (16 mm) and Electronicam (35 mm), was discarded in the 1970s by Metromedia, the broadcast conglomerate that was the successor company to DuMont. According to Congressional testimony, these films were discarded somewhere between Upper New York Bay and the East River. To date, the person or persons responsible for ordering the destruction of the kinescopes and other recordings remains unknown." (Wikipedia) Astonishingly, there was a brief movement dedicated to sending divers to the bottom of the river to try to retrieve the sunken treasures.