Electronic delivery of alternative contents in cinemas before the digital era: the case of theater television in the US exhibition market in the 1940s and 1950s
In the early 1950s, 20th Century-Fox acquired the rights to a Swiss television theater system called Eidophor which the company promoted as creating a “new field of operation-a field of limitless opportunity” for cinema exhibitors. The idea was to pipe “special events” (Broadway musical hits, operas...
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| Language: | English |
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Association Française des Enseignants et Chercheurs en Cinéma et Audiovisuel
2012-08-01
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| Series: | Mise au Point |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/map/775 |