{"id":9992,"date":"2022-04-27T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/04\/27\/the-story-of-television-sarnoffs-version-1956-film\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:03:31","slug":"the-story-of-television-sarnoffs-version-1956-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/04\/27\/the-story-of-television-sarnoffs-version-1956-film\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story of Television (Sarnoff&#8217;s Version) &#8212; 1956 Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-BDqOYeeQk8?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Of course, this has to be taken with a huge grain of salt. &#8220;General&#8221; Sarnoff sits there and claims that Vladimir Zworkyin &#8220;invented&#8221; electronic television. But Philo Farnsworth really did that. Zworykin&#8217;s claim to invention has about as much validity as Sarnoff&#8217;s claim to having been a General! <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>But still, there is a lot of interesting info amidst the RCA propaganda. Again, it is really striking how far they had come before WWII put things on hold for four years. <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of course, this has to be taken with a huge grain of salt. &#8220;General&#8221; Sarnoff sits there and claims that Vladimir Zworkyin &#8220;invented&#8221; electronic television. But Philo Farnsworth really did that. Zworykin&#8217;s claim to invention has about as much validity as Sarnoff&#8217;s claim to having been a General! But still, there is a lot of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/04\/27\/the-story-of-television-sarnoffs-version-1956-film\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Story of Television (Sarnoff&#8217;s Version) &#8212; 1956 Film&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[358,31,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farnsworth-philo","category-radio-history","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11393,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9992\/revisions\/11393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}