…and you don’t need any kind of card to gain access. This is actually one of the things I’ve been wanting to do for some time; Over this past weekend I finally got all the video clips I’ve had lying around for years uploaded to YouTube so that I could present them here in a …
There is an outfit near Columbus, Ohio called The Early Television Foundation, which operates a museum that houses hundreds of vintage televisions and other electronic gear. Their website offers photos of their collection as well as a virtual tour down early TeeVee’s memory lane. They’re even having a convention in May for serious early TeeVee …
I’m in the process now of sorting thorugh all the video segments I’ve got lying around here and uploading them to YouTube, which I will eventually compile into a "farnovision" channel. Let’s start with this segment from the Discovery Channel’s "Origins" program from 1996, to which I contributed the Farnsworth side of the story: This …
I was just poking around YouTube and found this footage that somebody has posted from the 2002 Emmy Awards Telecast, when Pem Farnsworth, aka "The Mother of Television" was introduced to the industry that she and her husband were instrumental in starting. I for one still cannot quite comprehend why it was necessary to diminish …
Here’s something I should have linked to long ago, which only occurs to me now that I have this handy way to quickly add new links to this website. Elma G. ‘Pem’ Farnsworth, the widow of Philo T. Farnsworth and affectionately known by all who knew her as ‘The Mother of Television,’ died last May …
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A young actor named Jimmi Simpson has been cast to play Philo T. Farnsworth in the La Jolla Playhouse production of The Farnsworth Invention. The riveting new drama, which uncovers the story behind one of the world’s most powerful inventions, is a part of the Page To Stage New Play Development Program, La Jolla Playhouse’s …
Hollywood may finally be taking notice of Philo T. Farnsworth. As some of you may recall, when Aaron Sorkin stepped down as executive producer of NBC’s The West Wing back in the spring of 2004, he announced that his next project would be a feature film, The Farnsworth Invention. Sorkin’s interest in the Farnsworth story reaches …
…the new "farnovision" website.
