Abstract
VISITORS to the New York World's Fair in 1939 saw an intriguing display at the RCA pavilion. On a tiny black-and-white picture tube, the ghostlike image of David Sarnoff, then chairperson of RCA, spoke to the world, predicting a great future for the medium of television. A quick glance at the headlines of the day provides some indication of the wonder television generated. As Business Week proclaimed, Curtain Goes Up on Television, and Collier's promised, Before Your Very Eyes. More wary, Time deemed television Terrific Witchcraft, while Harper's questioned, Where Does Television Belong? Other magazines speculated about its role in education, in the library, in viewing surgical operations, and as a new aid to recreation. Although television's development was interrupted by World War II, in 1946 the boom began. By 1951, coast-to-coast viewers watched President Harry Truman open the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco, Calif. Natural color
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