1925 in television
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The year 1925 in television involved some significant events.
Below is a list of television
-related events in 1925.
Below is a list of television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
-related events in 1925.
Global television events
| Month | Day | Event |
|---|---|---|
| March | 25 | John Logie Baird John Logie Baird John Logie Baird FRSE was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system, and also the world's first fully electronic colour television tube... held the first public demonstration of his "televisor" at the Selfridges Selfridges Selfridges, AKA Selfridges & Co, is a chain of high end department stores in the United Kingdom. It was founded by Harry Gordon Selfridge. The flagship store in London's Oxford Street is the second largest shop in the UK and was opened on 15 March 1909.More recently, three other stores have been... department store Department store A department store is a retail establishment which satisfies a wide range of the consumer's personal and residential durable goods product needs; and at the same time offering the consumer a choice of multiple merchandise lines, at variable price points, in all product categories... on London London London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its... 's Oxford Street Oxford Street Oxford Street is a major thoroughfare in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, United Kingdom. It is Europe's busiest shopping street, as well as its most dense, and currently has approximately 300 shops. The street was formerly part of the London-Oxford road which began at Newgate,... . The demonstrations of moving silhouette images continued through April. The system consisted of 30 lines and 12.5 pictures per second. |
| June | 13 | Charles Francis Jenkins Charles Francis Jenkins Charles Francis Jenkins was an American pioneer of early cinema and one of the inventors of television, though he used mechanical rather than electronic technologies... achieves the first synchronized transmission of a moving silhouette Silhouette A silhouette is the image of a person, an object or scene consisting of the outline and a basically featureless interior, with the silhouetted object usually being black. Although the art form has been popular since the mid-18th century, the term “silhouette” was seldom used until the early decades... (shadowgraphs) and sound, using 48 lines, and a mechanical system. A 10-minute film of a miniature windmill in motion was sent across 8 kilometers from Anacostia Anacostia Anacostia is a historic neighborhood in Washington, D.C. Its historic downtown is located at the intersection of Good Hope Road and Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue It is the most famous neighborhood in the Southeast quadrant of Washington, located east of the Anacostia River, after which the... to Washington, DC. The images were viewed by representatives of the National Bureau of Standards, the United States Navy United States Navy The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S... , the Department of Commerce United States Department of Commerce The United States Department of Commerce is the Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic growth. It was originally created as the United States Department of Commerce and Labor on February 14, 1903... , and others. Jenkins called this "the first public demonstration of radiovision". |
| July | 13 | Vladimir Zworykin Vladimir Zworykin Vladimir Kozmich Zworykin was a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and pioneer of television technology. Zworykin invented a television transmitting and receiving system employing cathode ray tubes... applies for a patent for color television. |
| circa August–October | Zworykin first demonstrates his electric camera tube and receiver for Westinghouse executives, transmitting the still image of an "X". The picture is said to be dim, with low contrast and poor definition. | |
| October | 02 | John Baird achieves the first live television image with tone graduations (not silhouette or duotone images) in his laboratory. Baird drags office boy William Taynton in front of the camera to become the first face on television. But rate of five images per second is below realistic movement. |
Births
| Month | Day | Name | Occupation/Accolades |
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| January | 11 | Grant Tinker Grant Tinker Grant Almerin Tinker is the former chairman and CEO of NBC from 1981 to 1986, co-founder of MTM Enterprises, and television producer. Tinker is the former husband of television actress Mary Tyler Moore... |
U.S. United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... producer Television producer The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking... , NBC NBC The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago... network Television network A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay TV providers. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small... executive, "The Man Who Saved NBC". |
| 23 | Danny Arnold Danny Arnold Danny Arnold was an American producer, writer, comedian, actor and director known for producing Barney Miller, That Girl and Bewitched.-Life and career:... |
U.S. producer, actor, stand-up Stand-up comedy Stand-up comedy is a comedic art form. Usually, a comedian performs in front of a live audience, speaking directly to them. Their performances are sometimes filmed for later release via DVD, the internet, and television... comedian Comedian A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience, primarily by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy... (d. 1995). |
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| April | 22 | George Cole | U.K Actor |
| May | 02 | Roscoe Lee Browne Roscoe Lee Browne Roscoe Lee Browne was an American actor and director, known for his rich voice and dignified bearing.-Biography:Browne was the fourth son of a Baptist minister, Sylvanus S. Browne, and his wife Lovie... |
U.S. actor Actor An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity... (d. 2007). |
| June | 25 | June Lockhart June Lockhart June Lockhart is an American actress, primarily in 1950s and 1960s television, but with memorable performances on stage and in film too. She is remembered as the mother in two TV series, Lassie and Lost in Space. She also portrayed Dr... |
U.S. actress. |
| July | 06 | Merv Griffin Merv Griffin Mervyn Edward "Merv" Griffin, Jr. was an American television host, musician, actor, and media mogul. He began his career as a radio and big band singer who went on to appear in movies and on Broadway. From 1965 to 1986 Griffin hosted his own talk show, The Merv Griffin Show on Group W Broadcasting... |
U.S. talk show Talk show A talk show or chat show is a television program or radio program where one person discuss various topics put forth by a talk show host.... host, producer (Jeopardy! Jeopardy! Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories... , Wheel of Fortune) (d. 2007). |
| August | 15 | Mike Connors Mike Connors Mike Connors is an American actor best known for playing detective Joe Mannix in the CBS television series, Mannix. Before that, he had played a crime-fighting investigator, wielding a .38 handgun hidden in his back, in another CBS series, Tightrope.-Early life:Connors was born Krekor Ohanian in... |
U.S. actor of Armenia Armenia Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia... n descent. |
| October | 16 | Angela Lansbury Angela Lansbury Angela Brigid Lansbury CBE is an English actress and singer in theatre, television and motion pictures, whose career has spanned eight decades and earned her more performance Tony Awards than any other individual , with five wins... |
British United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... -born actress. |
| November | 11 | June Whitfield June Whitfield June Rosemary Whitfield, CBE is an English actress, well known in the United Kingdom since the 1950s for roles in radio and television comedy series.... |
British actress. |
| December | 13 | Dick Van Dyke Dick Van Dyke Richard Wayne "Dick" Van Dyke is an American actor, comedian, writer, and producer with a career spanning six decades. He is the older brother of Jerry Van Dyke, and father of Barry Van Dyke... |
U.S. actor. |