‘Tv is KING’ - Prof Manfred Von Ardenne describes demonstrating television to Adolf Hitler

Extract from ‘Tv is KING’ - Professor Manfred Von Ardenne describes demonstrating television to Adolf Hitler, Berlin 1936. In a remarkable interview given in his private laboratory in Dresden in 1994, television pioneer Professor Manfred Von Ardenne [1907-1997] describes the events that led to him demonstrating the principals of television to Adolf Hitler. This chilling encounter took place during preparations for the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Live transmissions from the games using mechanical scanning ( intermediate film process ) and cathode ray tubes would be used to deliver "live" pictures to viewing parlours in Berlin, Leipzig, Nuremberg, Munich and other cities. The latest technology deployed a vertical mounted cathode ray tube, which was viewed via a mirror lid. Before mechanised production, these glass tubes were entirely hand blown, and liable to implode without warning. On this occasion, immediately after Hitler and his SS guard had left the room, the mirror-lid receiver he had been closely inspecting, suddenly imploded. To read more about the remarkable career of Professor Manfred Von Ardenne please visit: https://www.vonardenne.biz/en/company... https://www.vonardenne.biz/en/company... Viewers might also like to visit: https://www.bairdtelevision.com TV is King was a UK/German co-production between Peter Rommel Films Berlin and Leman Productions Ltd. Shot in the UK and Germany, 1994. Super 16mm Eastman colour. Stereo. Presented by the television historian Michael Bennett-Levy. An associated exhibition in collaboration with the Edinburgh International Science Festival was held at the City Art Centre. First shown on BBC Scotland’s “Ex-S” strand 1994. The film was the opening inaugral transmission of BRAVO Canada on 1st January 1995, and later screened in over a dozen territories. Today it is still used as a primary source for television and media historians. Winner Royal Television Society Scotland Award Silver Medal - New York Film Festival Bronze - Munich Film Festival Medianet Awards