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Reasons Why, The (Part II) (1959)

Television manufacturing at RCA's New Jersey plant. Includes scenes of design, engineering and quality control. Great scenes of TVs with flickering test patterns.


This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives

Production Company: Handy (Jam) Organization
Sponsor: RCA Victor Corp., Television Division
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: need keyword

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: smcelectronics - - December 22, 2006
Subject: A fascinating journey of Color TV production
As Spock might say...

A fascinating journey of Color TV production.

Shows the manufacturing and testing of RCA Color TVs including enviromental and operational testing.

A reviewer made the comment that "RCA hires Nerds",
no they didn't hire nerds, the people you are
looking at are educated, trained technicians
and engineers who took pride in their
appearance, occupation, the company they
worked for, their community, their family,
and maybe even their Country and Church.
Apparently these concepts are alien to that reviewer.

As a bit of trivia:

RCA developed and held the patents to most
of the circuitry for the NTSC color tv system.
Thus every TV maker in the US and free world
that used our NTSC system had to pay royalties
on every color TV tube (CRT), deflection yoke,
and about 75% of the circuitry used in their
color TV's.

It wasn't until the mid 1960's when Sony
developed their "Trinitron" color tv crt tube
that a color tv appeared that didn't follow
100% exactly the RCA system of color
reproduction. Thus Sony didn't have to pay
the same amount of patent royalties to RCA
as other companies.

Reviewer: Spuzz - - April 21, 2004
Subject: Geek Power rules!
After a rousing beginning, with a "____ is connected to the _____ " song variation, the film then gets down to business, and tells us how each and every beautiful RCA television is designed and built. A little more then a follow the assembly line film, what I found hilarious about this film was RCA's insistence of hiring EVERY LIVING NERD POSSIBLE. I mean, counting all the bow ties, glasses and ducktails forever. Other then that, as I said, it's the power of the assembly line (oh and test after quality test). Great color too.