An excellent Zenith documentary film from 1955

[drh4683]

A friend of mine informed me of a video he found and uploaded today on YouTube. Needless to say, I enjoyed it very much.

This documentary presents a nice cross sectional view of what was going on at Zenith back in 1955. The so call "Long Corridor" was part Zenith's then engineering facilities and main plant at 6001 W. Dickens Ave in Chicago.

It's so sad that it's all gone now other than some existing abandoned plants.

But at least we can enjoy seeing the prosperity of our past in action with films like this:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uROw395rPiM





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[Eric H]

Terrific film, thank you!

[JBL GUY]

Thanks for the link!

[DaveWM]

companies like zenith had to go so there would be room for facebook.

[John Marinello]

I had a flashlight like that one...

[Username1]

Cool... Kinda Get Smart - bela lugosi beginning to it.....

Got this in the suggested list after watching the one listed above....

" UHF TV: Fog Over Portland - 1953 Educational Documentary - WDTVLIVE42 "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoNETAQ0iPI



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[Tom S]

Watched it. Was great. Never again will we see electronic manufacture. Really don't like new technology. Great that we're moving ahead but a shame we don't do much of it in this country

[zeno]

Doug thanks for the link. As a Zenith nut it gave me both a
warm feeling & a tear to the eye

73 Zeno

[old_tv_nut]

Doug, thanks so much. I suggest those who are interested download a copy to their computer for preservation.

I watched with an eye out for anyone I might recognize. John Rennick appears in the foreground at about 06:13. I never worked with him, but I once had to call him at home long after he had retired, to ask about the color crystal capacitance value that Zenith had standardized on. I needed to change it for the design of some cable head-end gear, and wanted to make sure I wasn't making a mistake.

Rennick was the senior engineer for the Zenith participation in the NTSC color tests, and was on hand during the famous "blue banana' trick. He was so certain that Zenith's color prototype was correct, that when the blue bananas came on screen, he told RCA that they had a transmission problem, turned off the Zenith set, and went to dinner.

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1...ision-research

[rca2000]

I wonder if that "nerd girl" about about 1:30 had much problem in the dating area...back in the day?

[sampson159]

in case you didnt know,"nerd girl" is my wife

[vallieone]

Love the old TV Superman music sound track!!!!!