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1947 July 23, 1950 WGN-TV Small Fry Club: 1947 1951 Dumont Juvenile Jury: 1947 1954 NBC The Swift Home Service Club: May 1947 ? NBC Doorway to Fame: May 2, 1947 July 4, 1949 Dumont Kraft Television Theater: May 7, 1947 1958 NBC King Cole's Birthday Party: May 15, 1947 June 23, 1949 Dumont In the Kelvinator Kitchen: 1947 1948 NBC The Walter ...
The first successful American children's television series, Movies for Small Fry debuts on the DuMont Television Network. July 16 RCA demonstrates the world's first all-electronic color camera to the Federal Communications Commission. (Only television receivers were present at the demonstration on January 29; the camera was at a remote studio.)
The early days of television introduced hour-long anthology drama series, many of which received critical acclaim. [6] [7] Examples include Kraft Television Theatre (debuted May 7, 1947), The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (debuted September 27, 1948), Television Playhouse (debuted December 4, 1947), The Philco Television Playhouse (debuted October 3, 1948), Westinghouse Studio One (debuted November 7 ...
1940: The American Federal Communications Commission, (), holds public hearings about television; 1941: First television advertisements aired. The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies.
In Britain, there were 15,000 television households in 1947, 1.4 million in 1952, and 15.1 million by 1968. [citation needed] By the late 1960s and early 1970s, color television had come into wide use. In Britain, BBC1, BBC2 and ITV were regularly broadcasting in color by 1969. [citation needed]
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 13 Rue Madeleine: Henry Hathaway: James Cagney, Richard Conte, Annabella: Thriller: 20th Century Fox: Adventure Island: Sam Newfield: Rhonda Fleming, Rory Calhoun, Paul Kelly
The 1947–48 United States network television schedule was nominally from September 1947 to March 1948, but scheduling ideas were still being worked out and did not follow modern standards. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning series, new series, and series cancelled after the 1946–47 season .
David Lean's film Great Expectations, based on the novel by Charles Dickens, opens in the U.S. Critics call it the finest film ever made from a Charles Dickens novel. June – Langer's Deli opens in Los Angeles. June 5 – Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the Marshall Plan for American reconstruction and relief aid to Europe.