1937 in American television

none 1937 This is a list of American television-related events in 1937. Events August- The Blue Network subsidiary of NBC broadcast a play cycle consisting of Eugene O'Neill's works, featuring the actress Helen Hayes.Official Web Site of Helen Hayes – Radio http://www.helenhayes.com/about/radio.htm January 8, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20070115032544/http://www.helenhayes.com/about/radio.htm January 15, 2007 dead November 27 -The NBC broadcast The Three Garridebs, a television adaptation of the short story The Adventure of the Three Garridebs (1924) by Arthur Conan Doyle. Louis Hector played Sherlock Holmes, the first actor to do so on television.Barnes Alan Alan Barnes (writer) Sherlock Holmes on Screen 2002 Reynolds & Hearn Ltd 218 1-903111-04-8 Eyles Alan Sherlock Holmes: A Centenary Celebration https://archive.org/details/sherlockholmesce0000eyle registration 1986 Harper & Row 81 0-06-015620-1 Outside of an opening scene using previously filmed footage of the London skyline,Haining Peter Peter Haining (author) The Television Sherlock Holmes 1994 Virgin Books 44–47 0-86369-793-3 the bulk of the action took place on studio sets of 221B Baker Street and the home of Holmes' client Nathan Garrideb. Only three sets were built: 221B Baker Street, Nathan Garrideb's home and Inspector Lestrade's office. Previously filmed footage of Hector and William Podmore riding in a hansom cab was used to link the action on the sets. Date uncertain - In 1936, RCA and its subsidiary NBC had demonstrated to their licensees in New York City a 343-line electronic television broadcast with live and film segments."Where Is Television Now? https://web.archive.org/web/20080913065455/http://www.earlytelevision.org/where_is_television.html September 13, 2008 ", Popular Mechanics, August 1938, p. 178. In 1937, RCA raised the frame definition to 441 lines. Its executives petitioned the FCC for approval of the standard.Alexander B. Magoun, Television: The Life Story of a Technology. Greenwood, p. 65. 978-0313331282. In 1926, Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton had announced the results of experiments he had conducted with G. M. Minchin and J. C. M. Stanton. They had attempted to generate an electrical signal by projecting an image onto a selenium-coated metal plate that was simultaneously scanned by a cathode ray beam. Campbell-Swinton A. A. Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton Electric Television (abstract) Nature 118 2973 590 1926-10-23 10.1038/118590a0 1926Natur.118..590S 4081053 free Burns 1998 123 In 1937, these experiments were repeated by two different teams, H. Miller and J. W. Strange from EMI, 10.1088/0959-5309/50/3/307 Miller H. Strange J. W. The electrical reproduction of images by the photoconductive effect Proceedings of the Physical Society 50 3 374–384 1938-05-02 1938PPS....50..374M and H. Iams and A. Rose from RCA. 10.1109/JRPROC.1937.228423 Iams H. Rose A. Television Pickup Tubes with Cathode-Ray Beam Scanning Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers 25 8 1048–1070 August 1937 51668505 Both teams succeeded in transmitting "very faint" images with the original Campbell-Swinton's selenium-coated plate. Although others had experimented with using a cathode-ray tube as a receiver, the concept of using one as a transmitter was novel.Abramson, Albert, Zworykin, Pioneer of Television, p. 16. The Blue Network subsidiary of NBC had finished an expansion phase, but was still smaller than its competitors. Having started with 7 stations in 1927, it had only 33 stations by 1937."The Blue Network Today", page 3. In this period, along with the NBC Symphony Orchestra broadcasts, the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts were part of the "crown jewels" of the Blue Network. A sober, dignified pamphlet issued by the network in 1937 stated that the broadcasts were under RCA sponsorship, and "[t]hrough the medium of nationwide NBC Network broadcasting, Grand Opera has been given to the entire nation. No longer is it reserved for the privileged few – now even the most isolated listeners throughout the United States are able to enjoy the world's finest music at their own firesides. The National Broadcasting Company (...) is proud to be the means of bringing the Metropolitan Opera to American radio listeners." The pamphlet notes that 78 stations broadcast these opera performances in 1937, and that reception for the program was "nationwide", something moderately unusual for an NBC Blue broadcast."Broadcasting the Metropolitan", NBC Blue Network, circa 1937; in the collection of E.O. Costello Births 1937 in television#Births Deaths 1937 in television#Deaths References Sources Blue Network Company The Blue Network Today; a Memorandum on Its First Independent Year, and Its Present Position in the American System of Broadcasting, with a Note on Blue History Blue Network Company, Inc. New York 1943 43939184 Burns R. W. Television: An International History of the Formative Years gZcwhVyiMqsC 1998 IEE History of Technology Series 22 London Institution of Electrical Engineers 0-85296-914-7 1937 *