Interviewees discuss the 1939-40 World's Fair and the television demonstration at the fair.
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“At the World's Fair it was fad. It [the television demonstration] was a trip. You would love to see yourself. You'd say, ‘Look, Mary, there we are!’ It was like home movies. Everybody didn't have home movies then - people didn't run around with video cameras at that time. So just seeing yourself on any kind of screen was exciting.” - Ethel Winant, Casting Director
Highlights

Ethel Winant on early involvement in television via the Pasadena Playhouse and on seeing television at the 1939 World's Fair

Louis Dorfsman on seeing television at the 1939 World's Fair and the development of color television

Romilly Rutherford on the television demonstration at the 1939 World's Fair

Betty Garrett on working at the 1939 World's Fair, and on the television exhibition

Doris Roberts on seeing television at the 1939-40 World's Fair

Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. on DuMont's Model 180, their first television set, and demonstrating it at the 1939 World's Fair
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Erik Barnouw
Erik Barnouw on attending the RCA television demonstration at the 1939 World's Fair
Sam Christaldi
Sam Christaldi on Du Mont and the 1939 World's Fair and the early price of television sets
John Conte
John Conte on seeing television at the 1939 World's Fair
Louis Dorfsman
Louis Dorfsman on seeing television at the 1939 World's Fair and the development of color television
Hugh Downs
Hugh Downs on seeing television for the first time at the 1939 World's Fair
Elma Farnsworth
Elma Farnsworth on her husband Philo T. Farnsworth avoiding the television demonstration at the 1939 World's Fair
Les Flory
Les Flory on preparing for broadcast television and the 1939 World's Fair
Horton Foote
Horton Foote on the television exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair
Ray Forrest
Ray Forrest on attending the 1939-40 World's Fair
Reuven Frank
Reuven Frank on seeing television at the 1939-40 World's Fair, and on his first job in television news
Betty Garrett
Betty Garrett on working at the 1939 World's Fair, and on the television exhibition
Leonard H. Goldenson
Leonard H. Goldenson on seeing television for the first time at the 1939 World's Fair
Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr.
Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. on DuMont's Model 180, their first television set, and demonstrating it at the 1939 World's Fair
Lewis Gomavitz
Lewis Gomavitz on his early experiences in theater and on meeting Burr Tillstrom at the 1939 World's Fair
Albert Heschong
Albert Heschong on the 1939 World's Fair
Martin Hoade
Martin Hoade on the first time he saw television at the 1939 World's Fair
Seaman Jacobs
Seaman Jacobs on attending the 1939 World's Fair, and on the first time he saw television
Loren Jones
Loren Jones on RCA's television exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair
Ernest Kinoy
Ernest Kinoy on the first time he saw television at the 1939 World's Fair
Sid Krofft
Sid Krofft on the 1939 World's Fair
Sheldon Leonard
Sheldon Leonard on seeing television for the first time at the 1939 World's Fair
Richard Lewis
Richard Lewis on the first time he saw television, at the 1939 World's Fair
Sidney Lumet
Sidney Lumet on seeing television at the World's Fair, and on getting into television
Stewart MacGregory
Stewart MacGregory on seeing television at the 1939 World's Fair
E. G. Marshall
E.G. Marshall on working at the 1939-40 World's Fair, and on his earliest memories of television
Barney McNulty
Barney McNulty on seeing television for the first time at the 1939 World's Fair
E. Roger Muir
E. Roger Muir on the first time he saw television in 1939, and on going to work for NBC
Arthur Penn
Arthur Penn on attending the 1939 World's Fair
Abraham Polonsky
Abraham Polonsky on first encountering television at the 1939 World's Fair
Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers on the first time she saw television at the 1939 World's Fair
Doris Roberts
Doris Roberts on seeing television at the 1939-40 World's Fair
Andy Rooney
Andy Rooney on seeing television at the 1939 World's Fair
Romilly Rutherford
Romilly Rutherford on the television demonstration at the 1939 World's Fair
Edgar J. Scherick
Edgar Scherick on remembering seeing television at the 1939-40 World's Fair
Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr on seeing television at the 1939 World's Fair
Frank Stanton
Frank Stanton on his early awareness of television, and the introduction of television at the 1939 Worlds Fair
Robert Trout
Robert Trout on covering the 1939 World's Fair
Ethel Winant
Ethel Winant on early involvement in television via the Pasadena Playhouse and on seeing television at the 1939 World's Fair
David L. Wolper
David L. Wolper on seeing television at the 1939 World's Fair and on his family's first television set