Video URL


13154_39472_sf_TV_broadcast_4
Subjects

1948
B&W

Silent footage from the first telecast broadcast in San Francisco on May 25, 1948 from station W6XJD at the St. Francis Hotel. A man wearing glasses draws a sketch of a woman, a mosquito, a camel with an umbrella and a hippo’s butt with the words “The” to indicate “The End”