Old photos of TV's

[decojoe67]

Originally Posted by rld-tv01

I was searching americanradiohistory.com and found this picture of eight new TVs for 1947. Who out there has all eight sets in their collection? I only have 3 of them: Viewtone, Dumont 102 Clifton, and RCA.

http://www.americanradiohistory.com/...-Page-0099.pdf

Great photo of some of the earliest post-war TV offerings.
The most desirable one there, although a real bare-bones cheap set, is the Viewtone on the far right. Easily valued in the low thousands. Just a few of them are known to exist. The next rare one is the Remington console. It's hard to see in the pic, but it's a very impressive, high-quality pre-war-looking console. I recall hearing of one in existence in all my years. The angled-front Dumont console is very pre-war-like too and quite rare and unusual. Lastly, the Stewart-Warner console is one of the more uncommon of the small early console TV's.

[rld-tv01]

A fellow collector had the actual magazine and sent me a better scan of the picture.

[Eric H]

Other than the 630TS pretty much all of those sets are exceedingly rare today.
I've never even heard of a Remington or a Telicon TV.

Was the Remington any relation to Remington Rand? or the Firearms company?

[rld-tv01]

The Rembrant is the only Remington TV that I have seen

The ETF museum has both a Rembrant tabletop and Telicon Projection set.

http://www.earlytelevision.org/rembrandt_1950.html

http://www.earlytelevision.org/telicon.html

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by decojoe67

Great photo of some of the earliest post-war TV offerings.
The most desirable one there, although a real bare-bones cheap set, is the Viewtone on the far right. Easily valued in the low thousands. Just a few of them are known to exist. The next rare one is the Remington console. It's hard to see in the pic, but it's a very impressive, high-quality pre-war-looking console. I recall hearing of one in existence in all my years. The angled-front Dumont console is very pre-war-like too and quite rare and unusual. Lastly, the Stewart-Warner console is one of the more uncommon of the small early console TV's.

I was surprised to see that the Stewart-Warner is a rebadged GE 801 or similar. That was before S-W built their own sets.

[Steve D.]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

I was surprised to see that the Stewart-Warner is a rebadged GE 801 or similar. That was before S-W built their own sets.

1947 Stewart Warner rebadged 1947 GE 801. Anyone have schematics to compare?


-Steve D.

[decojoe67]

Originally Posted by Steve D.

1947 Stewart Warner rebadged 1947 GE 801. Anyone have schematics to compare?


-Steve D.

I'm thinking the Stewart Warner looks similar to GE, but is a different set, not a rebadged one, but I'm not sure.
I actually only recall seeing one of these sets unearthed a few years ago. Definitely uncommon.

PS -
Remington Radio Corporation (no connection with Remington firearms) was based out of 80 Main Street, White Plains, NY, and appeared to install Dumont chassis' into high-end tabletop and console cabinets. They called their sets a "Rembrandt - master in the art of television". Tabletops were pricey at $495 and consoles at $895. They appear to have been into TV production at least up to 1950.

[rld-tv01]

This Television was on a recent TV show "DC Legends" where they go back to 1958. Originally I though it was a 1949 Teletone TV-149. Is this TV just a prop or real TV?

[WISCOJIM]

Doesn't make sense to build props when they can buy or rent TVs from collectors.

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[Eric H]

Originally Posted by rld-tv01

This Television was on a recent TV show "DC Legends" where they go back to 1958. Originally I though it was a 1949 Teletone TV-149. Is this TV just a prop or real TV?

That's a real set, an Olympic TV922 to be exact, though I'm sure it has a modern set inside for filming, for that reason I'd rather they built props instead of ruining real sets.

[Steve D.]

Lightened up the off screen image a bit. Eric H. good call on the Olympic.

-Steve D.

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by Eric H

That's a real set, an Olympic TV922 to be exact, though I'm sure it has a modern set inside for filming, for that reason I'd rather they built props instead of ruining real sets.

You would not absolutely need to destroy the set to fit a modern set inside...On most sets it would be feasible to remove the CRT and tape a flat-screen behind the mask (reinstalling the chassis so the knobs have mounts), or just tape a green screen (although I think tech has moved past the need for green) over the front of the CRT and use effects in post production to achieve the image.

[decojoe67]

Originally Posted by rld-tv01

This Television was on a recent TV show "DC Legends" where they go back to 1958. Originally I though it was a 1949 Teletone TV-149. Is this TV just a prop or real TV?

So often a retro-fitted prop set is one of the less-often seen models. Not that it's a very rare set, but that Olympic is not one you see every day and it is/was a real nice '40's model TV. Oh well!

[Eric H]

Not a TV but this is a shot of a New York City rooftop circa 1958.

It's a screen shot from the show "Naked City", much of it was filmed on location so this is really what it looked like back then, all those antennas connected to TV sets we would now consider collectible.

I'm sure many people at the time thought this was a blight on the landscape.

[kramden66]

Originally Posted by Captain Video

Ok, here they are:

Betty Paige and a muntz?