Farnovision

  • Chapter 1: TeeVee (1921-1949)
  • Chapter 2: Fusion (1935-1971)
  • Buy A Book
  • Chapter 1: TeeVee (1906-1940)
  • Chapter 2: Fusion (1940-1971)
  • Buy A Book
  • Uncategorized

Under Construction

October 4, 2019
by admin
1 min read
Add Comment

This website is being relocated from TypePad to WordPress. CLICK HERE …for all that old Farno-Goodness …while we’re still unpacking and re-arranging the furniture here at our new home (we’ve moved from...

Continue reading

  • Uncategorized

The Distinction is Not Insignificant

September 4, 2017
by Paul Schatzkin
5 min read
Add Comment

Sadly, the myth that television was “too complex” for a single individual to invent persists.  With its September 4, 2017 edition, The New Yorker magazine delivered its first-ever “Television Issue,”...

Continue reading

  • Television

An Open Letter from Jessica (Farnsworth)

June 17, 2014
by Paul Schatzkin
5 min read
Add Comment

Jessica Moulton, with her grand uncle Skee Farnsworth and cousin Philo Krishna Farnsworth, accepting the induction of Philo Farnsworth into the TV Academy's Hall of Fame, along with Ron Howard, also inducted on March 11...

Continue reading

  • Uncategorized

Here We Go Again:
An Open Letter to The Palo Alto Players

June 2, 2014
by Paul Schatzkin
7 min read
Add Comment

"The most effective lies are the ones built around a fragile germ of truth." —Andy Greenwald   Please step aside as I dust of my lance and go looking for windmills one more time… For…...

Continue reading

  • Uncategorized

Will The Propaganda Never End?

April 20, 2014
by Paul Schatzkin
1 min read
Add Comment

This just showed up in my Google alerts: World's Fair Predicted TV's Future The article is a look back at the  introduction of television at the NYC World's Fair in April, 1939 – the one where David...

Continue reading

  • Uncategorized

The Most Famous Man You’ve Never Heard Of

April 5, 2013
by Paul Schatzkin
2 min read
Add Comment

We were in Los Angeles last month – for Philo Farnsworth's induction into the Television Academy's Hall of Fame.  I suppose I should post some photos, but the whole experience was… well, let's just...

Continue reading

  • Television

At Last: Farnsworth is in the Hall of Fame!

February 23, 2013
by Paul Schatzkin
2 min read
Add Comment

There's been an increase in traffic to this site in the past week or so, which is quite possibly a result of the recent news that Philo T. Farnsworth – arguably the man who started it all – will be inducted next...

Continue reading

  • Uncategorized

Godspeed, Neil Armstrong

August 26, 2012
by Paul Schatzkin
1 min read
Add Comment

With the news of Neil Armstrong's passing yesterday , I am reminded that what always most impressed me about the moon landing in 1969 was not the fact of the landing itself, but the fact that more than half-a-billion people...

Continue reading

  • Uncategorized

Spreading the Big Lie to Australia

June 27, 2011
by Paul Schatzkin
1 min read
Add Comment

Now theater goers in Australia can hear Aaron Sorkin's twisted take on history, where "priority of invention" is awarded to the guy who actually LOST the case. Thankfully theatre goers will have a little help...

Continue reading

  • History
  • Science
  • Television

Stop Me…

April 25, 2011
by Paul Schatzkin
1 min read
Add Comment

….if you've heard this one before. From a story that ran in the Investor's Business Daily last week: In 1929, Sarnoff secretly hired Vladimir Zworykin, an engineer and head of TV research at Westinghouse, where he...

Continue reading

1 2 3 … 19 Next
Copyright © 2021. Created by Meks. Powered by WordPress.
  • Chapter 1: TeeVee (1906-1940)
  • Chapter 2: Fusion (1940-1971)
  • Buy A Book
  • Chapter 1: TeeVee (1921-1949)
  • Chapter 2: Fusion (1935-1971)
  • Buy A Book