Trapped By Television (1936)

[@Ourladyrules]

What a great vintage movie! so many familiar old faces here, Lyle Talbot, Mary Astor ❤️ and many others. Thank You so much! 🎥🥂🧓🙏

[@ronaldstrange8981]

Made the same year as me, so, it is of course, quite excellent. It is a great liitle movie, so give it it a whirl. England, October, 2023.

[@CarlosHernandez-ow8ps]

Ronald Strange: Seguiré tu concejo ,17 octubre 2023. Saludos desde Monterrey N.L México!

[@ronaldstrange8981]

@@CarlosHernandez-ow8ps How very kind. I was able to understand most of your much appreciated message so, I hope you or an English speaking friend can understand this. Kind regards and best wishes from England. October, 2023.

[@thetooginator153]

Ronald Strange - I recommend Google Translate. I use it all the time. I used it to translate Mr. Hernandez’ comment: “Ronald Strange: I will follow your advice, October 17, 2023. Greetings from Monterrey N.L México!” I’m in my sixties, and I can hardly believe how well computer translation works.

[@ronaldstrange8981]

@@thetooginator153 Thank you so much for your courtesy. I will get my grandson Monty to investigate. He is a little genius, or so he tells me! England, October, 2023.

[@kimmccabe1422]

Lol Very good

[@joethurman57]

❤Pretty good movie, my first time watching it, and I'm 67 and watch alot of older movies ❤

[@Marciaz]

Me too and 66

[@MrEab2010]

my father invented the first practical ballpoint pen assembly machine in the mid-1950s. I'm sure he must have seen this film as a teenager and in part had been inspired by it.

[@ronaldjorgensen6839]

great side note lets see his documentary also

[@Wig4]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bic_(company) 🙂

[@MrEab2010]

my father, Earl Birkett, built the first pen assembly machine in 1955, for which he received a patent. His company, Birkett Labs (later Birkett Automation Industries) began supplying automated pen assembly machines to Bic Pen around 1960 (the year I was born). His machines still manufacture Bic pens to this day. Dad passed away in 2014.

[@MrEab2010]

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[@Wig4]

@@MrEab2010 Nice. Just wanted to point out the inventor of the ballpoint pencil with quick drying printing ink: László Bíró, patent 1938 (Hungary)

[@tubespring]

Very good movie! Good plot and acting! Thank you.

[@jamessnee7171]

Television? What a crazy inventor. We all know that will never go anywhere.

[@garyfrancis6193]

True.

[@Jhymnbeau]

The Farnsworth, you say!

[@l337pwnage]

TBF, a lot of people stream the internet now.

[@l337pwnage]

@@BlondieHappyGuy ask Al Gore, he invented it. 😁

[@tommyboy5455]

It will never work

[@davidrosler5413]

I'm supposed to know all about old movies and I never heard if this terrific picture! Honstly, this is really Frank Capra stuff on a budget! Outstanding!!! Wonderful!!!

[@jennifersherman8838]

Mary Astor was beautiful! She spoke well and was easy to understand. She commanded my attention whenever she spoke. She made acting look so effortless (maybe it was for her). I'll never forget this movie.

[@charlesspringer4709]

And this is before she got involved with that Black Bird!

[@2nostromo]

@@charlesspringer4709 Oh right... the stuff dreams are made of!

[@karelglasner2673]

Too bad about the Astor family 😂

[@2wayplebney]

Smashing movie with great dialogue and likeable characters. And an amusing fight.

[@benniebritt5705]

Old gold never gets old 😂

[@benniebritt5705]

Old gold never gets old 😂

[@2nostromo]

This has inspired me to keep working on my quantum computating machine

[@kenw.1112]

BEST 30's movie I have ever seen 😊 I REALLY ENJOYED THIS MOVIE AND NEVER SEEN IT BEFORE EVEN AT MY AGE OF 63 YRS OLD. ACTUALLY LOVED IT BECAUSE I AM A ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN WITH ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE.

[@drrick8839]

Me too! Loved the movie and the parts they showed were actually authentic! The equipment was built in the fashion of the times but didn’t show all the ancillary equipment. The cathode Ray tube they showed was actually an image orthacon (likely a prop built to look very similar to one). That was the sensor in the camera that converted the image to electrical impulses.The CRT was the display tube in the receiver. I actually have equipment in my collection that looks very much like the props in the movie. I have enough era-appropriate parts on had to build similar props that could actually be made to work. One side note, the imaging devices at the time required a tremendous amount of light , much more than the room lighting in the movie. Actors had to wear very heavy makeup to present enough contrast to make a somewhat watchable picture. RCA, among others had working systems at the time. There was actually commercial telecasting being done in dust the time. The war held up consumer television broadcasting but it exploded after the war, especially with the fast track additional development done during the war. The consumer televisions available after the war were far superior to the pre-war stuff.

[@ricktaylor5744]

Interesting and informative thank you.

[@lynnfisher3037]

There are many great 1930's movies. Recommend "Of Human Bondage" with Betty Davis and Leslie Howard from the great novel of the same title by W. Somerset Maugham. Enjoy

[@lynnfisher3037]

​@@drrick8839Great info thanks. Where do you keep your collection?

[@micahpop6656]

Smoothly flowing (edited) and fun film with great acting and cute storyline.

[@wilhiamas]

What a charming movie and it had me on the edge of my seat at the end!

[@DavidRice111]

Always enjoy Nat Pendleton in everything he graced, and that little cutie, Joyce Compton is irresistible!

[@a.deewai3181]

Sort of gives me the feeling that experiencing the invention of the tv started out like that 😄 !! The excitement when it worked as the concept of it showed it had to operate... And the battle over the rights who invented it, etc. A relaxing fun movie to watch !! Thank you, 😉. God bless 💐. Sincerely in Christ Jesus, 💖🕊️

[@robandrews4815]

Back in 1978, I remember saying something to a group of friends. This was in reguard to a magazine article about the ' two Steves', " why would anybody want a computer in their home" 😍😍😍

[@kiwitrainguy]

In the movie Riders To The Stars which came out in the early 50s they pilot V2 rockets up to intercept a rogue spacecraft. One of the pilots asked if the rockets could be piloted by a computer instead. The answer he got was that a computer capable of doing that would be three miles long and weigh thousands of tons.😅

[@robwilde855]

So enjoyable! Thank you.

[@donsetliff7834]

What a great movie! I worked at a PBS station in West Virginia, and this is the first time I've heard of this. We should have shown it.

[@Trainwreck144]

I worked at Ch. 24 also. Back when it was WWVU.

[@donsetliff7834]

@@Trainwreck144 I worked at WMUL/WPBY in Huntington WV.

[@arthurvaisvilas7853]

Compared to the movies and crappy remakes nowadays, these old movies are great! I gotta get me one of these T. V. sets ya' know!

[@jimmyviaductophilelawley5587]

What a great little film! I love these literal time capsules on celluloid

[@pressureworks]

Directed by Del Lord. Would've been great if Howard, Fine and Howard made an appearance.

[@thomassnider6691]

That bill collector could've been Shemp's brother.

[@pressureworks]

@@thomassnider6691 maybe it was Shemps body double ? I dont remember his name.

[@wotan237]

Nice one, worth a shot. Shows that television was well known about in 1936...

[@hewitc]

Philo Farnsworth invented the first all-electronic television in the late 1920's. He demonstrated it to the press in 1928.

[@johnfalstaff2270]

@@hewitc. John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor and electrical engineer designed and built the world's first live working television system on 26 January 1926.

[@Carter-n5x]

Da krauts had tv . Furhrer tv.

[@alltheworldsastage.]

In the late 1800's and the early 1900's the electrical industry had opportunities for entrepreneurs and inventors a like. There were more opportunities in the electrical age then their is today. That should tell you the technology was not knew and its been around a very long time. After ww1 and ww2 all that was taken away. They had electric vehicles, warden clyffe towers, cloaking devices and flying machines without wings. Ww1 was won by that technology and ww2 destroyed the aether technology the world had for hundreds of years before that.

[@GeoNeilUK]

The BBC had been operating a television service since 1926, 3 years later, it would be shut down for... geopolitical reasons.

[@fairskin62]

Loved this movie. Who thought they would do a movie on Television in 1936

[@chipsramek3868]

@fairskin62 ... Me.

[@handsomeman-pm9vy]

It didn't go big until 10 years later in 1946.

[@GeoNeilUK]

The UK and Germany were already broadcasting a TV service by this time. Television in the 1930s was like the internet in the 1980s, there but very limited in who got to use it. France had Minitel, the UK had PRESTEL, Canada had Nabu and Europe had Teletext.

[@ianblakesley3349]

@@GeoNeilUK Television was featured in a mid-30s British film "Radio Parade of 1935" which was also partly in colour (Dufay), literally painted on frame by frame.

[@peterburke885]

Television debuted at the 1939 New York World's Fair .

[@blahblah2556]

The lovely Mary Astor of Maltese Falcon fame, looking fine.

[@davidparris7167]

That guy works for the same company that Wyle Coyote buys all his stuff from to catch the Roadrunner.

[@robertcunningham-n6k]

g6The ACME Company. Don,t buy their anvil,s , they fall on your head for some reason.

[@matta3968]

ACME Inc. They had EVERYTHING!

[@mandolndoc]

Fantastic!

[@unr74]

The plot is closer to historical reality than it might appear. The Farnsworth-Zworkin-Sarnoff fight over control of the patent rights of television is well documented and In about the same time frame.

[@patdoyle3686]

EXCELLENT MOVIE 📺📺📺📺📺📺it should be on television 😊😊😊😊😊

[@a.deewai3181]

😅

[@tonyb8660]

I haven't even watched it through yet but like it already. Thanks for adding worth to the interwebs...

[@robertd.carver6240]

Surprisingly clever and informative! The twisty plot, complete with deceit and betrayal, is a gem in itself.

[@mendocinogirl]

Terrific movie!

[@robkunkel8833]

It’s a really delightful movie. I’m surprised there aren’t more comments. What is the story line relationship between the Joyce Compton and Mary Astor? Let’s just assume very close friends. They are lovely together, for sure.

[@kmterpin]

Looks like I’m gonna have to pawn my mink fur coat so I can afford one of those newfangled television machines.

[@WadeRaney-vv5oi]

A Good 🎥,Thanks 😉

[@aj-2savage896]

Those cars were moving faster than a marching formation of WW1 soldiers.

[@iac4357]

Funny & excellent Gem of a Movie !

[@benniebritt5705]

I’m still studying these Icons of rainy day movies for today ‘s. Inventory of information inventions Thanks for thinking about me.

[@danstiverson]

Excellent movie!

[@kenw.1112]

Excellent Movie !! 😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@drhyshek]

Fight scenes at the end were hilarious.

[@williamscoggin1509]

She blinded me With science!!!!! 😎

[@julians9070]

A movie that made the cinema viewers think of what television could be like.

[@katfishkobain8809]

Great little ditty.

[@kenw.1112]

THIS WAS REALLY GOOD. WATCHED IT 2X 's in a row .

[@paulpizzo6831]

Mark Lawrence played one of the bad guys in this 1936 movie, and he appears in a 1999 episode of "Deep Space Nine".

[@Archie-td6ox]

What a fun movie!

[@jenniecormie6145]

What a gem!

[@daneblack2593]

I really enjoyed it like it very much

[@cliffordnewell2445]

That Lyle Talbot is dynamite.

[@Monkofmagnesia]

Nat Pendleton steals this movie. No wonder he is the first person we see when the film opens.

[@robwilde855]

I agree. An interesting man, quite unlike the characters he often played. He was a graduate who spoke four languages, and also a champion wrestler, at first for his college and then in the Olympics and professionally.. As well as appearing in about a hundred films and plays.

[@simonf8902]

Those wireless movies won’t never work.

[@hoodoo2001]

In 1936 Television was only ten years away, still is....oh, wait, that's Nuclear Fusion Power, not TV!

[@hewitc]

It was ready in 1938 and there were broadcasts in the UK. World War 2 out off implementation until 1946.

[@marcbahn5487]

@@hewitc There were broadcasts in France and Germany at the same time.

[@facundobresan1009]

Maravilloso!!!

[@yolamontalvan9502]

Oh my goodness. Is this how LIVE TELEVISION WAS BORN?

[@ronaldjorgensen6839]

wow great flick thank you

[@enrgz]

They hint to the story of the 'turner & griffon' that takes all things of value. The hidden reality. Many old movies tell things few perceive.

[@NoosaHeads]

Nice little short story.

[@ge0rgeharris218]

I have seen this before and its a pretty good flick! I found it to be entertaining! And it demonstrates the fact that television was being thought about!

[@williamleahy8478]

Del Lord, the director of this film is the man who directed the Three Stooges shorts, as well as the Keystone Kops.

[@DrMoorehen]

great wee movie❤❤

[@markhugo8270]

WOW! What, 17 years ahead of it's time?!!!

[@gregatkinson7276]

Always nice not to even have so much as a synopsis provided....

[@Renshen1957]

Del Lord directed some Three Stooges Two Reelers…watched for Mary Astor…

[@nickweech3487]

Lottsa laughs making it. Feel good factor high. Watch and see for yourself 😄 Ending is culmination WOW!

[@inthezone4123]

Fun film!

[@BradJames878]

This movie is pretty amazing. I didn't know they knew about the cathode ray tube all the way back in 1936, for I thought it came out in the late 40s. Aside from that, it's a sad premise that people tamper with someone else's genius invention or ideas. In my years of working, I've seen similar things happen. But in this movie, Lyle should have called people over to his apartment the minute the tv started working, so they could see it for themselves. The atmospheric conditions could have changed the next day, or something similar, and the tv wouldn't work right. If he called people right over, at least they would have seen there is promise for his invention.

[@leelarson107]

The cathode ray tube was first invented in Germany by Dr. Karl Braun in 1897. (And Joe Biden was there to double-check his work!)

[@charlespierce3647]

Sad that RCA no longer exists. Just people paying to use the trademark.

[@gregorypalmer5403]

Directed by Del Lord of Three Stooges fame.

[@chipsramek3868]

Yes and (((THEY))) were All Stooges ... not just 3. I still have a very old 6-pack of 3 Stooges beer. (bottles).

[@sarahmariah100]

Idk if I had a stroke or what but I flipping love 3 stooges now

[@alltheworldsastage.]

Dum down America

[@yoelfischel6327]

I have KZbin, I don't need a TV.

[@kiwitrainguy]

I watch KZbin on my TV.

[@mikolavision]

Excellent find!

[@elvispresley3340]

CHEERS from AUSTRALIA

[@zennabella1676]

SPOILERS......................GEE, I DIDNT THINK THE TV WAS GOING TO SHOW ANYTHNG, SO GLAD THOSE MEN FINALLY GOT T SEE THE TV WORKING IN THE END.

[@user-smalltownAK]

..almost as good the second time around as the first! some of these older movies were youtubed by another name.. .. & looked familiar; saw it four months ago, on other channel!😊☀

[@csrollyson]

Totally corny but wholesome story in the depression era. Thanks @trond

[@loisrossi841]

Fun, thanks.

[@Marciaz]

Like this a lot!!!

[@unveiltruth]

TY FROM KANSAS USA (= I

[@danitajminer3279]

Opening line. . . In 50 yrs you'll be able to fly without wings. . . 1986, we have space shuttle, 2021, we have SPACEX .😊

[@chipsramek3868]

No one was on board the NASA Lie (((Space Shuttle Disaster))) and there is no such thing as the ISS. Time for people to understand their Zion Run "Extortion Scams" ... aka... Taxes.

[@chipsramek3868]

Stupid people need to Wake-up and see how they have been conned into believing NASA ... then the Zion con Richard Branson and his Virgin Galactic... then Elon (his last name is defined as "smells like shit") with Space-X ... one gets exposed and another starts up.

[@alltheworldsastage.]

I conquer

[@kiwitrainguy]

Back in 1936 they had airships, those fly without wings.

[@donnarouse9432]

Riley coyote had to catch the roadrunner if only to pay acme for all the gadgets he used. One time he caught the roadrunner, and had to let him go because he didn't know what to do with it! Long live Riley and the road runner!

[@donnarouse9432]

You all know I meant wiley damn spell checker.

[@kellwng]

How you recorded this made the quality suck, But on a side note thankyou thats a good movie

[@20x20Ghost]

Peter Faulk school of acting

[@falcon664]

Greek in six easy lessons? And I spent four years in Spanish Level 1!

[@FredPilcher]

🙂 Very good!

[@eckankar7756]

Did the landlady ever get her rent?

[@johnrogan9420]

Where is the 2024 tele-porting machine?

[@bertspeggly4428]

Old films like this I usually find unwatchable, over-acted and full of annoying music. This one is very different, and very enjoyable. Thanks for uploading it. Minor point, how did the signal get from the camera to the TV?😁😁😁

[@northwesttravels7234]

Television, as useless as electric buggy whips.

[@daveschmarder-1950]

Today they would be crypto sellers. :)

[@danielvahnke3369]

Increde_Eble Depression Era classic .

[@rasputanrasputan1380]

Got a history lesson from this movie….didn’t know TV started in the 1930s…when I was a child I remember my uncle was a TV buff …in the early 1950s he would bring all sorts of TV to our house and worked on getting a good picture…we’d just stand by and watch the magic….

[@marcbahn5487]

Always loved Mary Astor. I just wish she hadn't cut her hair. Look her up in her pre-flapper silents.

[@ronaldjorgensen6839]

slick ladies i see

[@boilinabag]

harry cohn made the best movies at columbia. they used to call it poverty row, but their films stand the test of time. not like mgm fakeness.

[@charlesprice925]

Mary Astor could raise property values in a ghetto and give a B-movie respectability.

[@kenw.1112]

Is it me or I MISSED SOMETHING ? SHE ASK FOR $2,000 AND HE WROTE A CHECK FOR $200.00 ? Does anyone get why? A mistake by the writer or ???

[@philipchesley9615]

YaaaYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@footpuppy100]

Got to be good .comes frommakers of 3 stooges shorts.😂

[@kathleenking47]

The fight scene near the end..was very stooge like TV didnt really get across much until after WW2

[@philippecasteleyn9327]

Is it not cruel to laugh with people who are short of money ?

[@robertcunningham-n6k]

A propaganda movie for television. Hooda ever thunk it.

[@Davidbirdman101]

i wish he had taken the parts and stopped tv

[@robertcunningham-n6k]

Most sensible comment on here.

[@alltheworldsastage.]

Me too. Mind control I strong

[@steverhodesvideos6244]

Was this based on Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of television?