This black & white sales film is about DuMont televisions and company founder, American electronics engineer Dr. Allen B. DuMont. According to the film, DuMont is an inventor known as the “father of modern television” due to his improvements to the cathode ray tube in 1931. This film was produced by the DuMont Network, a TV network founded by DuMont, in 1953. The company behind TV manufacturing was DuMont Labs in Passaic, New Jersey. To sell TVs, it began the DuMont Television Network in 1942, one of the earliest TV networks. In 1956, DuMont Labs shuttered the network and spun off WABD & WTTG to “DuMont Broadcasting Corp”. DuMont sold his television manufacturing division to Emerson Radio in 1958,

Domestic scene: a man sits in front of a television as his wife comes in to turn it on (:06). Opening titles: The DuMont Story (:33). Dr. Allen B. DuMont, inventor and entrepreneur (:43). The Nipkow disk, aka a scanning disk, is a mechanical, rotating, geometrically operating image scanning device, patented in 1885 by German technician, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow. This invention laid the foundation of television (1:07). A television from 1938 followed by one from 1947 and 1952 (1:19). DuMont at work in his laboratory; maps of his plans (1:41). Months go by as DuMont tries different experiments (2:08). DuMont invents the cathode ray tube which ends up being produced commercially (2:22). This paved the way for big screen televisions (2:39). An antenna turns slowly (2:53). Cathode ray tube (3:05). DuMont writes things down (3:13). An oscillograph (3:31). Cathode ray oscillographs (3:48). DuMont created W2XVT, an experimental tv station (4:48). In 1938, the early type 180 television followed by one in 1939 (5:18). Cabinet style television in 1940, DuMont created the 195 television, which had a 20 inch tube (5:50). WWII footage of planes and submarines (6:08). When the war was over – DuMont created another television design (6:30). The DuMont Television sign (6:45). Women work in a factory on a production line (6:56). Televisions being created on the line (7:05). Men work on the insides of the televisions (7:21). TV antenna on a standard home (8:09). One lens cyclops TV camera (8:19). Multi-lens camera created by DuMont (8:30). A Portable sink generator (8:45). Dumont built large transmitters as time went on (9:03). Men work at the television station (9:23). The DuMont Television Network slowly spread out across the United States (9:36). A couple sits with the television on (9:54). A man works inside a tv station (10:05). Different cameras and microphones inside a studio at the station (10:15). The cathode ray tube and it’s gradual changes over time (10:38). DuMont made the viewing area larger over time (10:59). Dumont 30 inch screen, largest in the world at the time (11:08). A t elevation shown open (11:15). The new cathode ray tube called a “five gunner,” being built (11:36). A television transmission (12:07). How industrial television has helped people (12:15). Different images on a television (12:28). Cathode ray oscillographs (12:43). A policeman gets into his Bergen County police car (13:04). DuMont inventions: the multi-lens camera, cathode ray tube, oscillograph, tv tube (13:11). Allen B. DuMont at work in his laboratory (13:20). A DuMont television being watched by a couple (13:29). End credit (13:55).

Allen Balcom DuMont, also spelled Du Mont, (January 29, 1901 – November 14, 1965) was an American electronics engineer, scientist and inventor best known for improvements to the cathode ray tube in 1931 for use in television receivers. Seven years later he manufactured and sold the first commercially practical television set to the public. In June 1938, his Model 180 television receiver was the first all-electronic television set ever sold to the public, a few months prior to RCA’s first set in April 1939. In 1946, DuMont founded the first television network to be licensed, the DuMont Television Network, initially by linking station WABD (named for DuMont; it later became WNEW and is now WNYW) in New York City to station W3XWT, which later became WTTG, in Washington, D.C. (WTTG was named for Dr. Thomas T. Goldsmith, DuMont’s Vice President of Research, and his best friend.) DuMont’s successes in television picture tubes, TV sets and components and his involvement in commercial TV broadcasting made him the first millionaire in the business.

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