Magic Transistor

AFI Report (American Film Institure Quarterly), Spring, 1974.

Studio Control Units of the RCA All-Electronic High-Definition Compatible Color TV System at WNBW (NBC), 1949.

The Truth About Television; Why America is Slow to get Electronic TV, 1937.

Mars And Beyond, ABC Presents: Disneyland Television, 1957.

Mars And Beyond, 1957.

Television set, Eugene, Oregon, ca. 1955.

Garco the robot (Walt Disnery & Garco), c. 1953.

Lee Majors (as Steve Austin) and André the Giant (as Bionic Bigfoot); 'The Secret of Bigfoot' (1976).

Chicago Broadcasters introducing the New Ampex VRX-1000 Videotape Recorder (Later to be renamed the Mark IV), at the National Association of Radio and Television, March 14, 1956.

David Holzman's Diary" (McBride, 1967) "Solipsism is great, everyone should try it." —"Philosophy student joke" cited by Grei Marcus in Mystery Train, 1975 "This is not coming out the way I thought it would," David complains near the end. "You haven't told me anything," he almost shrieks at the camera. He's coming apart. The film ends with his destiny still a question mark (his draft status is mentioned only once, but hangs like a pall over the entire film). Solipsism may not be all it's cracked up to be after all. The minute-long television screen sequence—which contains over 3,000 individual shots filmed off a black-and-white set—is the picture's most bravura bit, but it also underscores just how not media-saturated Holzman's New York City is. The television's either on, or it's not. Out on the street, you maybe hear a transistor radio. Otherwise, that's it. Seems like a quieter place.