Antique Television Convention

[John Pinckney]

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE EARLY TELEVISION FOUNDATION

WHAT: THIRD ANNUAL EARLY TV CONVENTION

WHEN: APRIL 29-MAY 1, 2005

WHERE: EARLY TELEVISION MUSEUM, 5396 Franklin Street, Hilliard, OH 43026

CONTACT: Steve McVoy of the Early Television Foundation via
[email protected], 614--771-1510, 5396 Franklin Street, Hilliard, OH
43026 USA
John Pinckney via [email protected]

Presentations on the history of Television:

A 441 line mechanical scanner "for people, film and slides" and magnetic tape sound recording used in German television from 1938 to 1945. - Gerhard Bauer
Vintage TV collecting in France, a sampler from collectors viewpoint. - Jerome Halphen
History of television development in Italy, 1926-1939 - Robert Lozier
Adding Sight to Sound in Stalin's Russia: RCA and the Transfer of Television Technology to the Soviet Union - Alex Magoun



Other presentations scheduled so far are:
Dot Sequential Color - David Carlstrom
100 years of Test Patterns & China Dolls - Pete Fasciano
To Build an Iconoscope - Rob Flory
A State of the Art TV Standards Converter - Darryl Hock
TV Camera tubes and their development - Dave Johnson




Special Guest Speaker: John Trenouth, Head of Television, National Museum of
Photography, Film & Television, U.K.

Here is a tentative schedule of the Convention's events:
Friday, April 29
6:00–9:00 pm Meet other collectors at the museum. Cash bar with beer, wine, soft drinks.
Saturday, April 30
8:00 – 9:00 Flea market setup
9:00 – 11:30 Registration and Flea Market
11:30 – 12:30 Buffet Lunch
12:30 – 2:45 Presentations
2:45 – 3:15 Auction
3:15 – 5:30 Presentations
5:15 – 7:00 Browse the museum’s collection, talk to fellow collectors
7:30 – 9:30 Dinner at Yard Club
Sunday, May 1
9:00 am – 5:00 pm Browse the museum’s collection, talk to fellow collectors,
Demonstration of sets in the Museum’s collection
This year we have the following new sets working:
1928 Daven TV receiver and Western Visionette
Western Empire State lens disk set
HMV 905
Murphy A58V
Cossor 1210
DuMont Clifton
Capehart CXC-12 color set
...and probably a few more