HOW IT'S MADE: 1950's Televisions
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- Production assembly line operations showing electricians and technicians wiring and soldering various parts such as vacuum tubes & CRT's. Quality control testing is performed using oscilloscopes and other devices. Craftsmen and carpenters construct cabinets by hand, before painting and shipping.
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So many skilled jobs lost forever! Remember the tv repairmen who would come to your home and replace the tubes?
i miss the 80s and 90s a lot
Or you could go to circle K to test and buy new ones. Before they stopped selling them as tvs started using ic's, people would steal the tubes. Some people just had to steal something.
Do you know how much skill it takes to build an IC? These things are marvels of technology and once production starts they become cheap cheap cheap. Nowadays one salary can buy several good TVs, back then people used to rent out TVs because they were to expensive to own and broke down far to often.
The amount of time, work, and effort they did to make sure the product is of top quality is mind blowing. This is why a lot of appliances that were built back then, still work today.
Well said!
Yup, like the 1950 Kelvinator fridge in my basement - it came with the house my wife and I bought 32 years ago. It even survived a flood - watertight!
This was back when the US used to be "America" in a time before left liberals were turning the country into Sodom and Gomorrah thinking that life is suppose to be a country lived in by same s** marriages and crime waves of monkeys protesting as an excuse for their looting. We are in sad pethitic times now
But the quality sucked... fuses blew all the time, boards fried. Didn't last long at all.. meanwhile u got a flat screen still working after 25 years
@@jonc2914 What flat screen is still working after 25 years? If it was used a lot it wouldn't be. The issues you are describing shows you don't know what you are talking about. These sets had handwired chassis and no boards, and fuses rarely blow. Plus, if they do have issues, they are easily repairable. The new ones you either swap the whole board or (and this is almost always the case) you can't find it because they don't want you to fix it, so you throw the whole set away and get a new one.
I have collected vintage electronics for years, and restored them. I have around 30 vintage TVs all of which work fine with little to no work. The oldest set I have is from 1950, and I have many 60s-70s sets that work just fine as well. No flat screen TV would last anything close to that long even if you never used it.
I have fond memories of my Grandparents TV, how it was warm with that orange glow, and how you could smell the tubes cooking off dust and making the pressboard backing give off it's smell.
I also remember my Dad going to Radio Shack to stick suspect tubes into the tube checker they had there.
(I will be 52 in June)
I also remember going to a friends house and their cat liked to lay on the tv in the winter cause it was warm
My uncle is a musical equipment repair technician and actually has an old tube tester that was in a Thrifty drug store. Damn thing has to be 60+ years old and still does its job! Like the TVs these tube testers were meant to service, things were built to last back in the day.
My dad worked at this facility in New Jersey making tubes on third shift while he was in college.
I know because every time we passed it, he’d say he used to work there. Lol.
But that job paid for his entire college education and living expenses.
This was a time when a kid would go to school all day and work at night for four years.
He guessed that he slept for about four hours a day.
And everyday he had to walk barefoot uphill through glowing glass shards to get to school, right? And he was better for it, right?
@J Hemphill who wants to bet their dad is white? open immigration ruined this nation.
man you owe him big-time.
In 1975 a student college cost was 13 weeks of his average yearly income. In 2018 it was 53 weeks of his yearly income. Guess what the best time in American history to be a student? 1950s!
what the fuck did you do in college. fuck and study. damn you lucky man. i had to work night shifts all the time
At 13:05 I worked in the RCA Indianapolis plant right before it was closed forever in the mid 1980's. All the work was moved out of the country. That place provided hundreds of good paying jobs for decades. They were the kind of jobs that paid well enough to buy a house, new car and raise a family quite well on just that one job.
+orange70383 That is a by gone era now days. You are lucky to raise a family on two paychecks. I remember the big "to do" when RCA reached it 75millionth color set around 1985 I think it was!
Amen
Tell Donald J Trump our current president to bring it home again :)
I fucking hate globalism
@@defconzero true but then again it’s a double edge sword. We can afford many things because of it.
Those early 50's TV's cost a FORTUNE in 2019 $$$ (in the neighborhood of $3-4k) ,they were also furniture....and broke down all the time. My dad used to say that his repair guy watched our TV more than we did.
15-inch RCA color console in 1954 for $1,000 (RCA's most expensive)!!!!!
Very true. I remember our first color Zenith TV that set Pop back over $500 in the early 60s, I believe. That was probably more than his monthly paycheck at that time. As for the breakdown, that's was because tubes were inherently unreliable, which drove the invention of the transistor in 1947 - an amplifier that would never burn out unlike a tube amplifier.
My dad would say he was always round the back of the TV mending the damn thing than he was at the front watching it!
At least in those days the repair guy knew what to do after using the very helpful (by manufacturer) provided schematics of the device.
These days it's more like guesswork or having to count on an schematic downloaded from some backwaters of the internet.
@@timmy7201
Not true, TV repairmen were just as hopeless at repairing TV sets back in the 50s and 60s as they are today. We always used to 'rent' TVs back in the old days because TV sets were so unreliable that it would cost a bloody fortune to pay the TV repair man each time to fix a bought TV.
Love to see how our technology advances for the past 50years.Thanks to all electronics engineers and inventors,without them we are not enjoying this video watching on our palm of our hands.
It's insane that they make flat screen TVs today a quarter of an inch thick as if that's necessary. It's almost as if they don't want our products we buy to be durable......
You’re very welcome !
Ahhhh, back in the day when the home TV set was also able to heat the room as we watched. No thief was going to steal our tv as it was too heavy.
Now the TV is too cheap to steal.
@@mcplutt crazy how times change right
They burned electricity like crazy. Often running at 600 volts. Don't touch kids.
he RCA CT-100 is a Holy Grail for TV collectors. Introduced in 1954, it was the first color television sold in significant numbers, helping to launch a revolution in TV broadcasting.
With a 15-inch color picture tube, the CT-100 had a regal list price of $1000. For comparison, the base price for a new 1954 Chevrolet Bel-Air automobile was $1095.
$1,000.00 in 1954 had the same buying power as $9,164.46 in 2018.
Sharp started selling 8K TVs like the LC-70X500 in 2017 for $10,000 and its respective 8K tuner and receiver, the TU-SH1050, for around $7,000. Im not sure if this is totally accurate, at least not the prices.
You can equate buying power from silver coinage. Dimes, quarters and half dollars had .715 troy oz of silver per $1 USD coins. Today Silver is $25+/ troy oz of .999 fine silver, so the 1954 coins are like $18 in silver per U.S.D. that means 18+ times 1954 prices. So $1,000 USD in 1954 is now $18,000+ USD today!
That's why they laughed when Marty McFly said he had three televisions.
@@RLee-we1fc TV's are dirt cheap today it's nuts. While it might not have all the bells and whistles you can get a 65 inch TV for like 400 bucks. I remember my dads 42 inch "big screen" he bought in the 90s cost him an arm and a leg.
The CT 100 was the first commercial color tv from RCA. Westinghouse also had one that they brought out a few months earlier, but it had a lot of technical issues. Both were total market flops due to the tiny 15" CRT, and the lack of any color programming. RCA could barely give them away, and at an MSRP of $1000, it was considered a rich man's novelty. The collectibility of that model is there today, simply because it is such a rarity, and it was a "first of its kind"
So much pride and craftsmanship went into this stuff. It's why I love vintage electronics, stuff is not built this way anymore.
I especially fond of the ol' smack it with a cork test.
A time when quality was valued, time expended to make things right, and people who took genuine pride in what they built.
Oh but the lack of safety. Good lord at the OSHA fines in this RCA Victor factory.
@@AtariBorn Which is exactly what runs American manufacturers out of the country.
@@demef758 Not denying that. It also shows that cheap manufacturers in other countries are more than happy to trade their peoples' health for cash.
@@demef758 what ran American manufacturers out is your unwillingness to pay $10,000 for an American made TV when you could pay $300 for the same one made overseas.
Then American consumer electronics and cars took opiates while the japanese took over. (And now even they outsourced most manufacturing to China)
Back when people took a lot of pride in their jobs...reminds me of the old days at AT&T.
I started working there in 1973, when people asked me what I did for a living I was proud
to say I work for MaBell.
I had an uncle that worked for Western Electric from 1962 until he retired. He lived in Los Angeles but i don't know where his work place was. He received an old time clock from Western Electric/AT&T as a 25 year employee and I have it now.
*****
My uncle installed the first satellite system on Catalina Island as the wires in the bay were failing and the environmentalists didn't want new cables ran. He lived in an apartment on the island for the number of months it took him to get it online. From what I got out of him, he worked inside on equipment for most of his time with Western Electric. He mentioned when they got rid of tube equipment they just pitched it and the stock of tubes with it. I asked him if he saved any of the tubes and he said why? I said they might be worth money today. Oh well...
Bri G. you must be a hundred.
I'm 66 yr. old. I used to work inside central offices and some of the old timers were real characters. They would yell at you "don't touch my switch." They spent their days cleaning & adjusting those old mechanical relays and switches, one guy spent most of his life there retiring after 42 yr. service.
My best friend is 52 and is a real babe, used to be a physical fitness model.
I love this old stuff...thank you for posting! :)
My mother started at Bendix radio in Towson MD. right after WW2 and worked till the middle 50s when she left there and got a job at Westinghouse Aerospace outside of Baltimore. She had told me that while working at Bendix she had the knowledge to build her first television and did so. Since I was born in 55 I never saw the television but she told me it only had the chassis and picture tube. At Westinghouse she worked on the Awacs radar for planes as well on the project that built the cameras that went to the moon. The thing she was most proud of. My mother loved electronics and would be amazed at where it has come since her day. Sadly she passed in 1987 and never got to see any of it but cable TV. Oh in my opinion as fancy as the tvs are today, lasts no where near as long as the old picture tube tv. We had one that lasted almost 30 years. I still have an old 19 inch analog just in case.
I remember years ago building a superhet 5 tube radio in TV class.. with NO CHASSIS! the thing actually worked! Absolutely hilarious (the instructor at the time could NOT stop laughing!). You had to be real careful tuning the capacitor to grab different AM stations though as B+ on a few of these tubes was over 200vdc. Think about it.. no chassis! Everything was point to point but I used extra stiff wire to keep the components reasonably separated. Unreal.
2023: This is excellent. Thank You. My wife and I still, sometimes miss 3 channels, "rabbit ears" and the exercise that you would get from getting up to change channels and the volume.
Best Regards
I love the lady cutting the leads off of the PCB without safety glasses. Oh the good old days.
Better yet the man turning on the UV lamp, with no glasses or skin protection.
better yet the woman with LN and no gloves or arm protection
Soldering stations likely without hoods, no PPE use... the latent cost to the line worker in terms of health definitely added to the social cost of these sets.
Yep. Spray workers without respirators, eye protection, body suits. These are roomfuls of people who eventually croaked of cancers, lead poisoning, etc.
I've been using side cutters and trimming component leads for over 20-some odd years (hobby and professional). Never had to use safety glasses. You just angle the sidecutter (and the leads don't fly much if you use the proper tool).
I was a TV repaiman for many years and remember them well. Troubleshooting down to the component level having to be careful with the High Voltages. That old mechanical tuner brought back a lot of memories.
NICE !! METAL !! SHREADDER !! MATERIAL !! THAT !!
I remember the day, as a trainee TV technician, when for the first time, I diagnosed a faulty component (a capacitor) by "logical deduction" instead of "poke and hope".
I did component level repair myself. I still do vintage electronic repair on radio's and record players, however I did stop repairing T.V. sets due to the inability to get "C.R.T.'s" , and deflection yokes, flyback transformers, vertical blocking transformers ect.
TVs were works of art and built to last. They were considered furniture since a family usually only had one TV, so you'd see them encased in ornate wood and all sorts of fanciness.
BUILT !! TO !! LAST !! ?? FOR !! THE !! METAL !! SHREADDER !!
I had no idea they were still making 1950's TVs today. Thank you RCA.
In beginning 70's I remember my dad studying after his shift to be a servicer doing a course by post mail of Occidental Schools but the IC was coming to change everything and the course became outdated. Great video, great memories!
"An average capacitor must withstand at least twice the rated voltage." Someone please tell that to Chinese manufacturers! :))
??? we place chinese components all the time. And that's industrial pcb's no consumer stuff.
Alex stevensen the cheap chinese stuff
Their bad quality seems to be a requirement these days.
I'll lend them my NEC book.
I believe they only aim for a 25 to 50% margin on most electrical components now days.
I have always been impressed with RCA Harrison plant vacuum tubes.
As a kid, I watched TV on a black and white Admiral, with the orange glow from the vacuum tubes reflecting off the wall behind the console. Seems like better times then.
Today’s quality control: It turned on for a second. Ship it!
mrsemifixit because with digital it works or it doesn’t, #progress
@@scherzva Not 100% true. I have had digital gear work for a month or so and quit. "digital" equipment STILL have "analog" components: Trandsformers, Capacitors, coils.....Yeah if an IC tests ok, It might last decades. But they are NOT the only parts in a TV,radio,PC or game consoles.
"It's thinner, bigger, cheaper, smarter, cooler!"
... but you no longer have a decent income to afford it.
I hate digital flat screen tv’s ,they are laggy,don’t look appealing and you can no longer put stuff on those flat digital tv sets, why we are so off from analogue tv now these days where you only had to switch and watch tv, no need to log in or put in codes and search what you want to watch, no shady internet connection, no blockey garbitch artifacts.
@@johneygd Since the last 4 decades of 'advances' brought me to a point in my life where I can't even afford rent, my most favorite pasttime is walking past the giant super-cheap flat-screens in the walmart, wistfully wondering whether I'll ever have a place to put one in ... ahhh, technology.
As a former servicer of all makes and models starting with tubes and moving onto transistors then integrated circuitry and microprocessor controlled I find this video interesting. However, I can guarantee you that all this extensive testing ended in the 70's as evident by the quality (or lack there of) of the products sent to the retail store. There is no way they tested units at this level. It was too costly and just not feasible any longer. It only got worse with time as competition became more fierce with foreign manufacturers who could make the sets cheaper than we could in the United States. Quality began to slip even further and many companies were forced to either sell out or shutter their operations for good. Now days there is not a single U.S. owned TV maker left. Very sad. We developed all this technology only to have our butt kicked by other countries. I closed my business in 2010 when it reached a point where the parts of a TV cost more than the set itself new.
Victor Burk ... Wasn't Curtis Mathes the very last TV manufacturer to discontinue building TV sets in the US? I understand that the brand name has been revived recently with the focus on lighting technology and the possibility of flat-panel TV's bearing the Curtis Mathes brand coming to market.
However, the sad part....you guessed it....Made in China!!! Hopefully, their new line of products will be a significant cut above "average" Chinese-made stuff.
After the founder was killed in a plane crash and the family (children I believe) took over the company. Curtis Mathes filed for bankruptcy protection in January 1991. They still continued to sell TV's in this country for quite awhile after the filing. Contrary to possible popular belief CM didn't actually design and build their own sets. They were made for them by several manufacturers such as NEC (Japanese), RCA, Zenith and Magnavox with their name put on the set. I ran into problems with customers who had their famous six year warranty that became worthless except for parts that cost over fifteen dollars each (which most parts in the set are less than this) and no labor warranty. I have no idea who makes their stuff today since I left the service business over six years ago.
They leased the name out in later years after the filing but who knows who is leasing it today. My guess is the Chinese made stuff is the same as what is made for all the others with no deviation for higher quality standards, just a higher price! Last I knew Sanyo was still doing the final assembly of their sets in Arkansas (under contract with Wal-Mart) but I don't know if they still are. There are no American Television manufactures left. All are foreign owned now regardless of the name on the face. Even RCA and GE TV's are Chinese owned now.
Victor Burk ...In a previous post I mentioned, "If you're lucky enough to find a product Made in USA, keep reading and you will see...Assembled in Mexico!" Can't the US at least put the finishing touches on the few things that are made here anymore?
I am hard-pressed to find a US-made version of most anything I use day to day, whether I shop at Walmart or an upscale department store.
That includes iconic American brand names that have been trusted by consumers for generations.
I guess that's why I will never part with my Fender and Peavey guitar amplifiers. Imported from Fullerton, CA and Meridian, MS!
maverickdallas100
The Chinese do this today...
Note most of these people were ladies, and a great job they did too. In Oz we called them operators and they worked from instructions set up by the production engineer. It's amazing how in a short time they picked up the process and kept up with the line. The sets were burned in for 24 hrs before being packed. Very few caused rework.
i love that the screens are round. imagine it was kept this way and all modern content would be matched to round screens. i know its impractical. but its cool
The electronic picture was always rectangular in a 4 x 3 ratio. It was simply easier for tubes to be manufactured round back then. The only problem was that they were inefficient from a size point of view. The tube had to be higher than the picture in order to fit most of the picture in. Even then, some of the picture was missing off the sides, particularly near the corners.
@@bradadult5290 I agree 100%
CRTs were three dimensional due to electron gun radius. I have always wondered whats so great about flat screens.
Back when TV's were actually furniture
Then there were the console units with a TV, AM/FM stereo receiver, turntable, 8-track player, headphone jack and stereo speakers. Now THAT'S a piece of furniture.
And it was beautiful.
Evilpimp Nigga, they said “back then”, can you fucking read?
Needs to come back!
Evilpimp, edgy
All that knowledge, labor and technology to end up with TV programs loaded with stupid, annoying and boring commercials.
Not forgetting all those "reality" T.V. shows, where we're expected to believe that all that scripted and staged stuff is in any way real.
also now you tube videos.
Not when this video was new lol. Today yes 98% of TV is garbage including the news. But back then TV was something that you could enjoy.
@@RobertNES816 Especially Lassie, Gumby and Dragnet.
TV was meant to inform and educate ppl seen and heard what was going on. Before TV, people didn't know much really, unless you went to school.
After being a TV tech starting in 1973 I found that fascinating,
The Quality goes in before the Name goes on- Zenith
I haven't that cliche in decades!
Nowadays it's "The Quality Goes Out Before The Price Goes Up"
@@iagellatly : With today's model of tv, you said it right!
12:42 No respirator worn while spraying on the finish.
I bet that lady was high as a kite at the end of her shift.
waldo1967 00:00
I noticed the same thing.
waldo1967 she could take a trip without leaving the farm!
There was no need, notice in the background there is something similar to a waterfall. The air is drawn away from the worker and down the waterfall, particles are sucked out and some are stuck to the water.
Ya
at 12:45 the moving water in front of the sprayer is a filtering system used to remove fumes from the spray operation. I have seen it used in spray booths still today.(2017)
Mutlap I was wondering about that. How does it work?
TVs in the 40’s and 50s had numerous repair issues. Loose wiring, cold solder connections, defective tubes. If your set didn’t require repairs in the first year it was a rare object.
Yes, from today's viewpoint, them talking about wire-wrapping being more reliable than soldering, and then going on how solder joints need "just the right amount of solder" sounds insane.
This was back when the US used to be "America" in a time before left liberals were turning the country into Sodom and Gomorrah thinking that life is suppose to be a country lived in by same s** marriages and crime waves of monkeys protesting as an excuse for their looting. We are in sad pethitic times now
@graealex Believe it or not, wire wrap IS more reliable than soldering. This was extensively tested by Gardner-Denver in whenever it came out. Of course, they were trying to sell/push their complex wire-wrap machines at the time so maybe the test results were fudged....but WW is phenomenally reliable. Of course part of soldering's "loss" of reliability is heat-damage to neighboring parts. Wire wrap, to those unfamiliar, may look really ugly, but it had a lot of advantages over soldering in the late 70's & 80's thru early 90's with .100 spacing chips and the ability to rework and modify circuitry.
Great TV life time working
Thank you. There is so much I want to comment on about the film, the people we see and the time in US history that this was filmed. I recognized two of the TV sets from my youth. One of the smaller sets was in my grandparents house in the garage my grandfather had turned into a dual use office and movie theater, not uncommon for folks to do back then. Anyway the other console TV was in my parents house it was old and required constant replacement of tubes etc. we used it until 1974 when they replaced it with a massive 32” console TV with turn table and 8 track built in also.
I have just watched something called Quality Control... Wow!... It did exist, I always thought it was a myth!...
My 4k 27 inch LG monitor broke after 1 month of usage...
I think they deprecated QC between 2000 and 2010...
Received my brand-new LG monitor back from their service center this week, one day later and it's broken again! Next time this piece of garbage breaks down, I smear human excrement over it and put some rot'n fish in the box before shipping it to their service center.
PS: _It actually broke one month after ordering it, I had to wait 14 days for it's delivery so the first defect was on day 14 to 15. We're now 80 days later and I'm still without functional monitor, payed $410 for it! Thanks LG, you suck!_
Yes it used to exist, I promise it did when a pallet was unloaded, every item was unboxed and tested . Now just two or three items are tested and the rest are "ASSUMED" to be OK
I repaired a friends buckle on her shoe, I tested the strength of the repair as best as I could, but I couldn't hand it back to her knowing the buckle on the other shoe was half broken, so I took unpicked the remaining threads and fixed that one also, I just couldn't hand one fixed shoe back without the other being fixed and looking as perfect and knowing that while she was wearing them she would be safe... See, even I have quality control and safety...
@J Hemphill Thank's for the heads up it should have been 'paid' I guess. I sometimes miss things like that in English, especially when tired!
Except from English, non Americans may also communicate quite fluently with this maggot in Swedish, Dutch, French or German.
Americans please be advised to learn a secondary or third language before calling others a maggot for misspelling a word in English.
Thx!
Watching this on a galaxy S8, its scary how much technology has advanced in just 68 years. Imagine 68 more
EEERR !!?? STAR TREK !? / WARS !!??
We will all be out of work and broke. Our slave masters will laugh and introduce a new product Soylent Green to dispose of the mounds of corpses.
Man.. the 50s/60s era was a different time. Loved the woman spraying lacquer with no mask. Also.. bet most of these TV's ended up in land fills.. all that "craftmanship" rotting away in a pit somewhere.. electronics too.. lol. Love these old vids..
Hey that’s my old TV. Actually I was a geek and at 16 years old I had an apprentice license and worked in a TV and Stereo repairs shop in 1970. We sold Motorola Works in a Drawer TVs. Who knew 3 years later I’d be working on Motorola SonoBouy receivers on P3s.along with other Avionics. I retired from AT&T.
Back in the day when workers took pride in their jobs, I saw that kind of work ethic when I joined AT&T in 1973.
So similar narrator voice in all this era videos.
I wouldn't take any one seriously in these old promotional films with out that voice . Is it the same guy in the older Jam Handy films ?
I'd love to meet a real person who spoke like this.
Even the news presenters on TV now speak in such a peculiar way, but it is done in such a way that a 5 year old can comprehend it the same way as a 55 year old.
50's narrators are the best.
Kinda wooden but I prefer it,it's more matter-of -fact and does not make me cringe like uptalking,which is very common these days.
@@dragonrider0601 They are. They were carefully selected and trained for pronunciation, timbre and clarity.
gotta love the machine beating on the tubes with corks :) 4:51
that is an amazing amount of QC
I can smell the lead solder through my screen...
Laurens A. Still in use today.
You would more likely smell the flux, as lead and tin do not vaporize at soldering temperatures.
Non-lead solder is SHIT.
I smell meatloaf
I could taste it lol
God bless all those great folks who’s hard work brought us TV.
Back when things were meant to last. RCA was the king of TVs nack in the day, both with their sets and their NBC network...recently found my moms old early 80s RCA CRT TV. It hadnt been turned on in close to 20 years and figured it wouldnt work. Flipped the switch and it came right on and looked great! Watched a couple old VHS tapes on it...worked great without issue after like 6 hrs of continuous use. RCA tVs have always been known for their durability. This video demonstrates why.
I remember being in college and going to the Bush Science Center Theatre, and they could show television on a huge theatre screen with a Kalart Victor Tele-Beam projector, in color. It was fantastic. We used to watch Apollo moon missions in there! Imagine a room with every nerd on campus in there, cheering. No jocks, no cheerleader types, just 150 of us REAL college kids and five or six professors. It was great. More fun than a Star Trek convention!
After hearing this, it makes one wonder how an electron tube ever burned out. Yet, as a teenager, I made a trip to the local neighborhood grocery store every few months with tubes to be checked on the equipment available to the consumer for testing, then bought a replacement tube from the cabinet below the tester.
Ah, the good old days in a do-it-yourself world.
That background music of this footage is so .... fifties., it's like when is starting a happy movie scene.
In sixties background music should be a bossanova bit.
In '70 probablely a funky rythm. XD
"Theeeeeeeemmme, from A Summer Plaaaa-aaace!
It's the theeeeeeeeme, froooom, A Suu-uumer Plaaace!"
THE !! FIFTY'S !! MUSIC !! MISTER!! SANDMAN !! THE SIXTYS !! THE SUMMER ! PLACE !! ELVIS !! BEATLES !! STONES !! THE SEVENTIES !! JOHN !! TRAVOLTA !! THE EIGHTIES !! SYSENSERSIZER !! THE NINTYS !! RAPP !! ENIEMEM !! THE NAUGHTIES !! BITS !! AND PIECES !! OF !! THE !! PAST !! AND THE !! SAME !! FOR !! THE !! NEXT !! TWO !! DECADES !! TODAYS !! MUSIC !! ( TWENTY !! TWENTY !! ONE !! ) DEATH !! METAL !!
FIVE !! HUNDRED !! YEARS !! FROM !! NOW !! BUCK !! RODGERS !! JABBAR !! THE !! HUTT !!! FLASH !! GORDON !! MUSIC !!!
One of my aunts used to work at Bell's, soldering every single day. She never got cancer and she is hitting 90 now.
Very interesting. The quality testing in this video is amazing. In the fifties you still needed a repair visit from a TV tech or trip to the local drug store for a tube tester twice a year.
We used to go to a local Radio Shack in the late 60's and 70's and use their tube tester, after finding out what number tubes we needed it seemed they were always out of the ones we needed about half the time-lol Walgreens also had a tube tester, as well as Kmart, Sears, Wards, Zayres, Woolco, even Rexall drug stores in Chicago and Thrifty drugs in Springfield illinois. Shoeboxes with rags or toilet paper inside were the preferred way of transporting the delicate cargo.
Great interesting video. Good quality control which doesn't exist anymore in this day and age.
It's gotten even better.
Quality control is now far better. Tubes blew on a regular basis, components were affected by moisture and heat. Quality control now is fully automated.
Just absolutely incredible.
Watching this I can smell and even taste that shop.
So they were meticulously hand made. No wonder the first color TV RCA CT-100 which is 15" cost $1,000 in 1954 which using an inflation calculator is $9,449.89 in 2019.
Not far off from what manufacturers were asking for the first high definition LCD sets, and same with 4k when it first hit the market. New tech calls for big bucks to cover the R&D. The only difference these days is the quality of the product.
Cars were cheaper back then... at least a good used one anyways.
Which was a waste of time as there was no color broadcast until around 1965.
Would love to see how the *shadow mask* was made. It required extreme precision.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe they were chemically etched back then. Using some kind of photo lithography. But if I'm incorrect, someone please feel free to correct me
There's a mullard film about called 'it's the tube that makes the colour', i seem to recall it goes into that detail.
Now if only we could test the quality of the programs as good as the TVs!
OOCCHH OOHH !! NOW !! YOUR !! IN !! TROUBLE !!
They all look flawless.
look at all the good jobs for people that are long gone today
with all that advancement, once cant help but wonder the quality of schools back then.
Boss men only made a few times as much as the line workers, unlike today. Everyone was in it together. Now workers are slaves.
It was also seen as stupid to overpay boss men.
This was fantastic to see. We don't get quality and attention to detail like this anymore.
Miss that period😭we all were glad
Such elaborate quality methods - so people can watch flying nuns and talking horses.
And also people saw history unfold on them... Most of these sets were still in service to witness John Glenn's orbit of the earth, the Kennedy assassination, most of the Vietnam war, Civil rights marches..., Many probably were still in use to see "Woodstock" and the Moon landing. We had a late 1950s RCA color set that lasted long enough to last though "Watergate". Back then you would keep a TV set (esp a color set) longer as a Color TV in 1959 cost as much as a decent used car.
@@jamesslick4790 Indeed. I watched the Apollo 11 moon landing, news from the Vietnam war and assassination coverage on our GE black and white set made in the late 1950s.
@@brianarbenz7206 I was a bit to young to "get" the JFK coverage, But MLK,RFK Apollo and Watergate I saw on our late 50's RCA color set! Just like those being made in this film. in 1975 our family bought a new Zenith set because CABLE had come to town! and we now had a whopping 12 channels! Whoo Hoo!!! Today TVs are better than EVER...Can't say as much for todays TV shows though! P.S. Watching TH-cam on a 55" Sharp TV!
And spaceships flying and moonbases established by the 90's.
Now we have uber-reliable machines that never fail so that we can all watch TH-cam influencers tell me how to lick toilets during the pandemic.
Just think, in 60 years there will be a retro video talking about today's Ryzen 1950 Threadrippers and someone will be thinking the same thing we are thinking while watching this video. "So that's where Star Trek got their ideas from".
No, no, Star Trek got all its ideas from William Shatner. He invented the twenty first century!
Right. After technology shift to bio/organic based processing. Currently, the limits of silicon are being met. Next? Sapphire. After that will probably be bio.
The sad thing is everyone in this video would have passed on now ...
No....?? They’d just be old... like 1950 was only about 70 yrs ago... so if someone was 20 they’d be 90 today... so old, but maybe not all dead lmao.
They've been forever immortalized on film though :)
I wasn't born yet 1950
I was born may 3 1990 my grandma given me her Antique TV for my NES System had a Dresser built-in which was cool now tv Sucks
Unknow Wolf 🐺 🐺 dude, ur 30... that’s a bit of over sharing... and not even on the topic we were talking about.
Unknow Wolf 🐺 🐺 youre 30 yet you sound like youre 9
Superb quality .....short film .....nice print and good audio ......🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
I keep hearing about the olden days where, if there was something wrong with your set, you popped out all the valves and tested them on the tube tester at the local drugstore. Weird times.
True story. I remember making that trip to test the tubes at the store on that huge tube testing machine.
YUP!!!, back in the day, when the sets were not old enough to have "REAL PROBLEMS", tubes would take care of 90 % of the problems. back in the day, a man would use a "station wagon" with a well stocked tube caddie, and make "house calls". us real repairmen would call those guys "TUBE JERKERS"!!!!, because that is all they knew what to do. if it was a color set, they could not handle the color convergence/ alignment . "U-TEST-M" was the company that would put a "TUBE TESTER" in the local "DRUG STORE" we knew it, the tubes that you were buying, were 3rd pick tubes( one step away from going into the dumpster) U-TEST-M, had made a deal with sylvania, they got those tubes dirt cheep, and sold them at a high price( 3rd pick tubes used orange ink)
@@gregoryclemen1870 wow. Good to know, sir.
thanks for replying back, I try to share what I know, I repaired those "OLD" sets, they were well built. R.C.A. made the sets to last 10 years, they really lasted more like 20 to 30 years, now its an issue of trying to track down parts for these sets( C.R.T.s, power transformers, deflection yokes, flyback transformers, tuners, R.F./ I.F. coils, vert. blocking transformers)
Nowadays ! It's TEST !! THE !! TUBE !!! IN !! ONE'S !! TROUSERS !!
Looking at the comments its funny that people and said things along the lines of "they were so reliable back then". Regardless of the brand or where it was made any electronics service technician of the time knew they weren't reliable and it was big business to repair tv's and radios. Tubes/valves ether went weak or blew, Capacitors leaked and carbon resisters drifted like crazy. electronics of the era needed servicing and they were designed to be serviced. Now things are too reliable for many electronics service technicians to stay in business, or too cheap from china its cheaper to just throw it out and get another one.
built in obsolescence is the name of the game.
Dana Vixen how long will your smart tv last. Record the date you bought things
Bought tv in 2006 got spilled some water on it but fixed cheaply still works fine till this day there was no other repairs for it only the one of my fault. (Samsung, kinescope)
That's how the Japanese killed the US electronics industry. They started making stuff that didn't break down often, and didn't need an annual visit from a tech to keep your TV working. My dad fixed those old sets and I first got into electronics helping him. I knew what every stage of a NTSC television did and how it worked.
does the product not loose its value because it was designed to fail? saving money on the cost of building a poorly constructed product is a benefit to the manufacturer.
It's digital technology now, but when you think about it from now on, the idea of analog TV is amazing.
This is wonderful video quality for a documentary this old.
Microchips are amazing. In the testing lab where they have at least 6 full sized 8ft racks of gear to generate and analyze test signals, that can be done today with handheld devices.
I'm old enough to remember the old valve TV sets, they were only available from a TV or rental shop, they were bulky, heavy and unreliable as hell, you were at the hands of the TV repair man.
"you were at the hands of the TV repair man". Yes, and so were a few lonely housewives I met on my service calls!!
@@hairybear7705Ooh Err, when 'hands on servicing' was the order of the day, and some parts needed expert handling.😏🇬🇧
I can’t imagine what it must have been like to take ownership of the freshly finished product of such a beautiful piece of hand crafted technological furniture. I don’t suppose there are any unboxing videos from the 50s?
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That would be awesome!
TVs were delivered back then and likely installed by the dealer/store that sold them.
From what I have seen in the news,Element Electronics is manufacturing television monitors and receivers in Detroit and Winnsboro,South Carolina.
Got to love the goofy background music.
Yeah everything was so pleasant in the 50s until Elvis came along and invented Rock music the Devils sound lol
Drinking game whenever the guy says "Quality"
"I'm not as Quality as you drunk I am...."
Crt, as old as this technology is it's still very impressive, I love these tvs especially repairing them though not many want thier old tvs fixed these days apart from retro gamers and arcade collectors but I'm more than happy to continue repairing them it's a labour of love, I grew up with crts and still amazed by thier picture quality and the skill to get them running spot on, you can keep your lcds with thier poor quality build and high failure rate, Id rather much have a crt and still do as my main viewing tv, my ever faithful sony trinitron 32"
great old innovative peoples....very calm and enjoying deeply in thier job
Thanks for publishing this video ! 👍
Back in the fifties the whole neighborhood would come over to watch our TV.
Really? I wouldn't want a house full of people coming over every week.
Color TV was quite rare in 50’s
We had a console TV w a 19" color picture tube, the AM/FM stereo, turntable, 8-track and stereo speakers. The neighbors came over to watch the moon landing in '69. Everybody was so excited.
I worked in the Sylvania TV tube factory in Ottawa Ohio for 30 years and fed a family of six that is until NAFTA and the the powers to be waved there magic wand and we were cast out ot the garden to fend for ourselves and I think I still hear the sound of the old westing house 408volt motors and the smell of solder still wants through my memory
I even met philo Farnsworth as told by my mother when I was 6 years old I had gotten lost lost near a TV studio in California fassnated I stood still to be found by my parent
we had an R.C.A. tube plant in cincinnati ohio, the labor contract was up for re- negotiation. management told the work force not to go "ON STRKE" . figuring that it was a "BLUFF", they went on strike, and R.C.A. closed the plant, that was in 1975.
@@gregoryclemen1870 you're telling me. Brother we were all in NAFTA s sights all along. It was just a matter of time for all of us. IBEW ALL THE WAY. WE made it to 2000. Not to brag but fact. Even the NAFTA Queen had a party . At our shop. Before the ax fell.
well, outsourcing started in the 1960s, manufacturing was being done in japan, then mexico, and now china!!!! all I can say is I am glad that I am retired now. there is no longer a manufacturing base in the U.S.A., just old dilapidated buildings. if we have another war, we are done!!!!!. thanks for responding back!!!! good old "SYLVANIA" E.I.A. code 312 ( we have "IBEW LOCAL 212")
@@gregoryclemen1870 I.B.E.W. 1654. And the state of(confusion) ohio wanted to retrain us in a cruel attempt to retrain the lot of us. With the promise of money for training. Not a drop in our hands. But given to the next employer. Also the so called top 500 company's were trying to get our pensions and rehab our factory. Site to suit them .like the song I took the money and ran . Hi hi setting in a paid for shack in a tennessee. Living the good life . Thanks.
Priceless! A portrayal of a chapter of history that would likely have been lost to time were it not for modern computer/electronics technology that, ironically, rendered these meticulously constructed receivers obsolete.
Ahhh! Maravilha!!! Já trabalhei assim desse jeito, penso ainda em ter uma TV assim pois na época já montei algumas
This is how it should be, making things HERE!
The TVs they sold cost the equivalent of 1500 to 3000$ today. Is that what you'd like?
@@CowSaysMooMoo $3000 TV today get you the best OLED TV Sony A9G so why not.
That was when America was great... We actually made our own stuff.
Make America great again?
Yes, I would Like America to Strong again
Australia is the same
Back to when teenagers were forced to go to war?
better than teens requiring safe spaces.
Saludos de un Tecnico Electronico de Chile,excelente video,muchas gracias.-
Now I feel bad smashing old TVs when I was a kid... they were in the trash but still
Love it how the past has evolved to be what it is today and the foundation of tomorrows technology
I still have some spare 6BQ5 tubes around somewhere. lol
Langrex in the UK still do a roaring trade in tubes of all sorts. They are always required
I trash-picked an RCA XL-100 back in the day - I replaced the tuner and watched it for 10 years afterwards. That was a great, well made television.
16:06 It would be nice to get my hands on one of those original unopened boxes! What a moment the unboxing would be..
now , there is no such thing as an all American made TV.
If there was one, only the rich could afford it lol.
Korean or Japanese lol
tundratomo that is pretty sad though,we can't even supply it for ourselves.
"Mahogany wood planks" For a TV no less. You can't even buy Mahogany furniture now unless you shell out big bucks.
Where tf did we go wrong ?
... I mean like, with everything.
Gibson Guitars are Mahogany but they cost like $2 grand lol
@@christineayres5339 My friend is an amateur guitarist and is an trying to save up for a 'Tony Iommi' - but at $800, that's about double what he had wanted to pay.
@@gregorysagegreene $800 seems low is that an Epiphone?
@@christineayres5339 Dunno' man, my friend is the guitarophile. It's supposed to be some kind of Gibson-branded 'Tony Iommi' special that he wants to get. His current instrument was only a couple hundred bucks. Plus he said he wants to get a better amp. He plays improvisionationally at home on the days he comes back from out on the road semi truck driving. He's into Sabbath and Purple like me, but can tell you all the Album years from many groups as well.
Gee wiz mister! I can’t wait to one day work in this type ofassembly line industry.
You could be pushing engine blocks around GM.
Just amazing... you'd never see this in Samsung or Sony plant these days... Chips, caps etc, are purchased based on spec and rarely tested... The attention to detail back in the day is amazing...
Well if its good enough for computing machines and guided missiles... its good enough for me! My god, each of those TVs had about $1000 of copper in them.
the printed circuit board was developed to keep up with the rising demand of T.V. set sales(cut down on rejected .miss- wired sets) it takes a lot of time to "HARD WIRE" a T.V .set. the p.c. boards were used in the "R.F./ I.F" stages of the set, tubes in those circuits did not generate much heat, so the failure rate of those boards was very low. the output stages where tubes run "HOT" were hard wired!!!!
ABOUT !! THE !! SAME !! COST !! AS !! THE !! I.C !!
Kinascope we called it a picture tube! That round picture tube was a 21ap22!
that was the name given to the "ROUND" screen. in the "TRADE" we called them "C.R.T.s"( cathode ray tubes)!!!!
Dam, gotta get one of these!
Interesting and informative👍 and the technique worked for a long time and forever, not like now