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Stowaway is a 1936 American musical drama film directed by William A. Seiter. The screenplay by William M. Conselman , Nat Perrin , and Arthur Sheekman is based on a story by Samuel G. Engel . The film is about a young orphan called "Ching Ching" ( Shirley Temple ) who meets wealthy playboy Tommy Randall ( Robert Young ) in Shanghai and then ...
The year 1936 in television ... television broadcasts of the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin are seen by approximately ... TV fitness instructor; July 28 ...
The BBC provided television and radio coverage of the winter Olympics in the UK - the TV coverage was presented mainly by Grandstand regulars such as Hazel Irvine and Clare Balding. Most of the coverage was shown on BBC Two , with some on BBC One , and there was also BBC Red Button for Freeview , Satellite and Cable (digital TV) viewers.
The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: Olympische Sommerspiele 1936), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: Spiele der XI. Olympiade ) and officially branded as Berlin 1936 , was an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin , then part of Nazi Germany .
July 7 - On July 7, 1936, RCA and its subsidiary NBC demonstrated in New York City a 343-line electronic television broadcast with live and film segments to its licensees. [3] November 6- RCA made its first public demonstration of its electronic television to the press on November 6. Irregularly scheduled broadcasts continued through 1937 and ...
Hitler invited Riefenstahl to film the 1936 Summer Olympics scheduled to be held in Berlin, a film which Riefenstahl said had been commissioned by the International Olympic Committee. [41] She visited Greece to take footage of the route of the inaugural torch relay and the games' original site at Olympia , where she was aided by Greek ...
The unexplained, last-minute decision to remove Glickman and Sam Stoller—a fellow Jewish American athlete—from the 100-meter relay at the 1936 Olympics, where they were replaced by Jesse Owens and Ralph Metcalfe, who easily won the gold medal, has been widely viewed as an American effort to avoid embarrassing or offending Adolf Hitler, then ...
In the spring of 1940, CBS staff engineer Peter Goldmark devised a system for color television, hoping to gain advantage regarding NBC and its black-and-white RCA system. [12] [13] The new system proposed by CBS was based on field sequential color and incompatible with existing sets [14] but "gave brilliant and stable colors", while NBC developed a black and white compatible color TV system ...