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Ray C. Kent standing behind camera, The University of Iowa, 1941

Ray C. Kent standing behind camera, The University of Iowa, 1941

Television camera employing Iconoscope. Electrical engineering instructor Ray C. Kent is focusing W9XUI camera by adjusting large portrait lens, 1941.
Art instructor Aden Arnold of the Plastic and Graphics Arts Department sketches a portrait during the course of his lecture on W9XK television, The University of Iowa, 1933

Art instructor Aden Arnold of the Plastic and Graphics Arts Department sketches a portrait during the course of his lecture on W9XK television, The University of Iowa, 1933

There is a sound microphone in the right corner and photoelectric cells behind him.
E.B. Kurtz adjusting telecasting equipment, The University of Iowa, 1930s

E.B. Kurtz adjusting telecasting equipment, The University of Iowa, 1930s

An over-all view of W9XK's telecasting equipment, showing scanning unit (at left) and amplifier-monitor panel. Handles on scanner are used to direct scanning beam on object in studio on other side of the wall. Prof. E.B. Kurtz, head of the Electrical…
Images from University of Iowa student Master's thesis on television production, 1941

Images from University of Iowa student Master's thesis on television production, 1941

In 1941 Raymond H. Abel, a UI graduate student in speech and theatre arts, wrote his master's thesis, A Project and Preliminary Investigation of Problems Involved in Producing a Play for Television. The thesis recounted his experience directing a UI…
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