| A MODERN MIRACLE New NBC Radio studios in New York are opened by David Sarnoff. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5510 |
| Catalog #: | 52981 | |
| Clip Number: | 52981-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 33/95 | |
| Timecode: | 01:01:36 - 01:02:47 | |
| Location: | New York, United States. | |
| Year Shot: | 1933 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | BUILDINGS: Skyscraper CEREMONIES: Grand Opening COMMUNICATIONS: Telephone ENTERTAINMENT/RADIO: Production LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New York, New York | |
| Description: | "New York. A Modern Miracle. Mr. David Sarnoff inaugurates new N.B.C. Studios by wireless telephone from London." New York, United States of America (USA). Shots inside new NBC radio studios (possibly in Radio City). A message is coming in by radio from London from the famous radio pioneer and RCA president and NBC founder David Sarnoff. An audience are gathered to hear Sarnoff and the interviewer in New York talk about changes in radio. Exterior shot of NBC Building in Rockefeller Center floodlit at night. Shots of audience. Exterior shots of entrance to building. Neon sign reads NBC Studios. Sarnoff says he will flash (presumably by Morse) the letters RCA to open the studios officially. RCA= Radio Corporation of America; NBC= National Broadcasting Company, by 1933 a wholly-owned subsidiary of RCA. | |
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