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Film Description
Sightseeing at Home (1943)
Sponsor: General Electric Co. Production Co.: Wilding Picture Productions. Director: J.M. Constable. Writer: L.R. Algeo. Camera: George Hoover. Editor: W.H. Tinkham. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 1-inch video tape held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 15 minutes.
Film promoting television at a time when the medium was still in limited use. It shows how television works and tours GE’s flagship station, WRGB, in Schenectady, New York.
Resources
Educational Film Guide (New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1945), 250; William L. Bird, Jr., “Better Living”: Advertising, Media, and the New Vocabulary of Business Leadership, 1935–1955 (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1999), 272.