Television Under The Swastika 1999 by Michael Kroft - Archived b

Name: Television Under The Swastika 1999 by Michael Kroft Source: DVD Year: 1999 Genre: Documentary/History/Propaganda Format: avi Resolution : 592x448 Audio rate : 158kpbs RunTime 54:44 Archived by !Utopiated!Net! Taken From The DVD Back Cover : "Recently uncovered footage, long buried in East German archives, confirms that television's first revolution occurred under the Third Reich. From 1935 to 1944, Berlin studios churned out the world's first regular TV programming, replete with the evening news, street interviews, sports coverage, racial programs, and interviews with Nazi officials. Select audiences, gathered in television parlours across Germany, numbered in the thousands; plans to create a mass viewing public, through the distribution of 10,000 people's television sets, were upended by World War Two. German technicians achieved remarkable breakthroughs in televising live events, including near instantaneous broadcasts of the 1936 Olympic Games. At the same time, the demand for continuous programming opened up camera opportunities far less controlled, and more candidly revealing, than Third Reich propagandists would have liked (an interview with a bumbling Robert Ley is particularly embarrassing). In its stated mission - to imprint the image of the Fuehrer onto every German heart - Nazi television proved a major disappointment. But its surviving footage - 285 rolls have been found so far offers an intriguing new window onto Hitler's Germany. Television under the Swastika, drawing liberally from this footage, opens up a surprising chapter in media history." From Utopiated Net www.utopiated net The Third Reich Broadcasting Company or Did The Nazis Invent Daytime Television? Contrary to popular belief, it wasn't the English or the American media that first created the concept of television 'programming' (what an appropriate term in retrospect) the dubious honour in fact belongs to the Nazi Party who in March 1935, began its national television service. This was the first non-experimental public television service and it in fact took England another twenty one months to begin its service, which began on November 11th 1936. Given the fact that America television is now the fountainhead of programming for the planet in terms of supply and the ideological inspiration for the form and content of television programming, it is perhaps surprising to hear it took the Americans another two years before they began broadcasting on a daily commercial basis in 1939. When one watches "Television Under The Swastika", one is immediately struck by the familiarity of the content in terms of our current western reality tunnel. The mind-numbing schedule of sports, human interest stories, cooking programs, political broadcasts and 'enter(train)ment' is uncomfortably recognisable to those who still choose the television screen as their drug of choice.

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 Kuthumi (2007-01-05)

What about subs? Is there a commentary in English? My German iz no longer vatt it nefer vass.

 Kuthumi (2007-01-05)

The video has English narrator/commentator and burned-in subtitles in English. Thanks for an interesting program!

k0nsl (2007-03-22)

I hope some day that they will release all those TV programs without the narrating voice of some American, Englishman or Russian. We can do without their comments. Thanks for this torrent.