1939: first electronic TV demonstration in Brazil

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The History of television in Brazil can be traced back to 1933, when Professor Edgard Roquette Pinto ( who introduced radio broadcast in Brazil in 1922 ) did some mechanical TV experiments in Rio de Janeiro. In 1939 the German Post Office made the first electronic TV demonstration at the Rio de Janeiro Sample's Fair. The President of Brazil, Getúlio Vargas, attended the demonstration and even wrote about it briefly in his personnal diary ( which was published in 1995 ). Below there's part of the first page of the newspaper "A Noite" of June, 4, 1939, with an article about the demonstration: