Picture of GE 1944 TVs

[rld-tv01]

I found a brochure mailed out to GE customers during the war with a card to return to GE to see the new radios and TVs after the war. Here is the GE TVs.

[Sandy G]

The "trapezoidal" one in front, altho exaggerated by the perspective, is a little scary-lookin'...<grin>

[rld-tv01]

I also like the projection set and the round screen on the TV in the back on the right side. I wonder if these were real sets or only illustration by an artist. The preceeding page had a picture of the camera and the image on the screens as a live stage setup.

[David Roper]

They are artist's conceptions, some not based on any known set and some on real prewar models. Clockwise from front: A greatly embellished HM-185; a fairly undistorted HM-226 but with speaker grill that looks eerily prescient of the Crosley Swing-A-View; nothing I recognize; appears to be an HM-171; another figment of the imagination; an HM-275 that went on a diet. The center projection set was probably something "proposed", but the one pictured is doubtful based on any real set that existed up to that time. See also: http://www.earlytelevision.org/ge.html

[fujifrontier]

aww, you're no fun, you beat me to it, LOL.

http://www.earlytelevision.org/ge_1944_brochure.html

[hposter]

Don't forget the table top in the back.

It's a concept, which is very similar to an actual GE war-time TV, I had bought about 6 or 8 years ago, resold to collector, which then got traded for radios and...?

It was a table top, with the strangest shaped chassis I've seen in a prewar.

Good Hunting! Harry

PS--I included a couple of stock photos I had taken of it back then.

[David Roper]

Yeah, I didn't think about that one. Since it never went into production I don't know if anybody at GE would have thought of it still even back in '44.