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Old 04-19-2016, 09:24 PM
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Tour Inside RCA Television Factory
Here is a film showing R&D and manufacturing in some RCA plants. I'm sure you experts will be able to identify the sets shown.

http://youtu.be/lxQS58t39_U
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Old 04-20-2016, 08:14 AM
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That was great. Have to get a copy of that. Thanks.
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Old 04-20-2016, 11:06 AM
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Absolutely fascinating. Man, think of the weight in steel in that plant!!!
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Old 04-20-2016, 02:18 PM
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That granite slab of a table.
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Old 04-22-2016, 07:31 AM
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But they didn't show how the chassis' were stamped out.
I was able to download an mp4 video via www.youtube2mp3.cc.
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Old 04-22-2016, 11:20 AM
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I think this video is a truncated collection of excerpts from a much longer film about RCA's consumer electronics division that is also out on youtube.
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Old 04-22-2016, 01:06 PM
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There are quite a few RCA films on the Prelinger Archives.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=rca%20television
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Old 04-24-2016, 10:09 PM
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Back when RCA was an actual company that actually made stuff. Not a meaningless trade name...
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Old 07-07-2016, 04:41 AM
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Agree with that.

Man, what a lot of manual work. No wonder those sets where expensive!
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Old 07-07-2016, 10:42 AM
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Wouldn't you like to see the same type of documentary made about the Muntz factory? Wouldn't be nearly as long. I would particularly love to see Muntz going through the engineering department, cutting parts out with his diagonal cutters until the TV stops working!
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Old 07-08-2016, 05:08 PM
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I think the color set is a 7. If not, then a 9.
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Old 07-08-2016, 05:45 PM
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Here is the COMPLETE version of this RCA film. And the segments are even in the proper order....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2si4pop4kDE
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