https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8157ffb6-c5df-4ee1-a76c-6b4a9e1131c3 Stepping Along with Television is a short 1949 film that was “part of the first hour of broadcasting following the linkup of the East Coast television networks to the Midwestern states.” The film shows how a televised production of Tchaikovsky’s “The Sleeping Beauty” is broadcast from a studio in New York City to homes in Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Waukesha, WI via coaxial cables and a microwave relay system. The film opens with a family sitting in their living room in Waukesha watching a ballet performance on their television. The film cuts to the broadcasting studio in New York City where the performance is being filmed. Viewers see camera men operating video cameras. Men in the control room monitor the footage and adjust the images (02:17). The film uses basic animation to show how the broadcast is then moved to a telephone communications building via underground coaxial cables. Inside, a man monitors how the image and sound is being displayed as it is then sent to Philadelphia (03:46). A man at the Pittsburg telephone building monitors the performance for quality control (04:15). Animations are used to show how the broadcast travels along coaxial cables to different cities. In Chicago, on top of a telephone building (05:30), viewers see an antennae that sends relay signals to broadcast the televised performance of “The Sleeping Beauty,” relaying the signal via wireless microwaves. Viewers see another control room, this time in Milwaukee (06:54). The film returns to the home in Waukesha where the family is watching the performance (07:41). The daughter answers the telephone and speaks to her grandfather in Boston. A little boy operates an old wall-mounted crank telephone (08:57). Viewers see a radio relay tower (09:55), a map of the Bell Telephone system network in the northeastern quadrant of the U.S., and the grandpa in Boston watching the ballet performance on his television. Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPZEbImbFRU Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:23:00 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/8157ffb6-c5df-4ee1-a76c-6b4a9e1131c3 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.