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Film Description
Stepping Along with Television (1949)
Sponsor: Long Lines Information Dept., American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Production Co.: Caravel Films. Transfer Note: Scanned from a 16mm print held by the Library of Congress. Running Time: 11 minutes.
Film showing the role of AT&T in facilitating network television transmission in the years before communications satellites. The live television broadcast of Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty ballet is sent from New York City to Wisconsin via AT&T’s coaxial cable and microwave relay system.
Note: According to a report in Business Screen, excerpts from Stepping Along with Television were included in the first program sent by AT&T’s relay system in 1949.
Resources
“Networks Linked by AT&T Cable,” Business Screen 10, no. 1 (1949): 31; “Free General-Interest Movies from Bell,” Modern Industry 17 (Mar. 15, 1949): 98; “Teacher-Committee Evaluation of New Films,” Educational Screen 28 (Dec. 1949): 450; Educational Film Guide (New York: H.W. Wilson Co., 1951), 442.