On This Day in Telephone History November 9TH 1937 AT&T’s First Experimental Transmission of Motion Pictures over Telephone Coaxial Cable System. The experimental showing of motion pictures was transmitted over New York - Philadelphia telephone coaxial cable system. The television image contained 240 lines.

On This Day in Telephone History November 9TH 1937

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On This Day in Telephone History November 9TH 1937 AT&T’s First Experimental Transmission of Motion Pictures over Telephone Coaxial Cable System. The experimental showing of motion pictures was transmitted over New York – Philadelphia telephone coaxial cable system.

The television image contained 240 lines.

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