A series of photos when people were still 'addicted' to the television

Once upon a time, watching TV was a daily entertainment activity for every family and every individual. Today, although TV still plays a major role in daily life to help audiences acquire information and entertainment, TV has witnessed a decline in popular cultural life compared to previous decades.

People are increasingly spending more and more time updating news and entertainment on smart mobile devices.

Despite this, almost throughout the world, in every home, the TV is still a familiar and popular electronic device, helping to enrich the spiritual life of every person and every home. Although the amount of time watching TV per day can be reduced by the influences of modern life, in every family, it is impossible not to have at least one TV.

Now, TV is no longer opening up a magical world for viewers, because there are many media - media, extremely attractive social networks have appeared, competing for TV's dominance. in the spiritual life of every person, every home.

Let's look back on a 'golden age' of TV, when people were 'addicted' to the small but wonderful screen, opening up so many things that they had never seen, heard or known before. :

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The senior figures in the American Broadcasting Corporation (RCA) are sitting in front of a new machine, an invention that promises to change the world, which is the TV.The magic machine that plays both the video and audio has been placed in the corporate headquarters office in New York before being widely introduced to the public.Photo taken in 1939.

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American writer Russell Finch enjoyed bathing and watching television.Photo taken in 1948.

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The men gathered in front of a store in Pennsylvania to watch TV shows being played on model TVs.Photo taken in 1948.

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A young boy enlisted to watch TV shows from a TV set in the store.Photo taken in 1948.

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The nuns at a hospital in the city of Erie, Pennsylvania, USA, are watching TV in the collective entertainment time.Photo taken in 1949.

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Watch western cowboy movies.Photo taken in 1950.

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People who go swimming at a public swimming pool attentively follow a news report.Photo taken in 1950.

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The children sat watching TV attentively.Photo taken in 1951.

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Men gather at a bar in Chicago to watch a baseball game.Photo taken in 1952.

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A little girl focused on drawing on the TV screen, she was not naughty but she was following the requirements of the program - an interactive program with audiences in the primitive form at the beginning of the broadcasting industry. form.It was a children's program, called 'Winky Dink,' which aired in the United States for four years in the 1950s. Children would attach to a screen a clear film and would follow the movements that appear. on the screen.Photo taken in 1953.

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A chimp named Zippy is sitting and watching TV.Photo taken in 1955.

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Korean-born Kang Koo Ri is watching TV in his adoptive family in Los Angeles.Photo taken in 1956.

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Friends meeting up at home to watch a rugby game.Photo taken in 1957.

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The family of a road worker in Utah, USA, is watching TV in a small cabin.Photo taken in 1957.

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A baseball fan with a radiant happy face when he saw the team he cheered won.Photo taken in 1957.

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A businessman watches TV in the hotel room.Picture taken in 1958.

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A family focused on watching entertainment at the end of the day.Picture taken in 1958.

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Farmers in the agricultural harvest sit together watching TV in a tent set up on the edge of a farm in Gary, Indiana, USA.Photo taken in 1959.

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Three Asian women sitting together watching TV.Photo taken in Chicago, 1960.

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The man follows the news from the hotel room.Photo taken in the city of Los Angeles, 1960.

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The '3-eyed' monster TV once had a fever, allowing viewers to turn on 2-3 different channels at the same time.Photo taken in 1961.

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Astronaut wife Scott Carpenter and his son Mac boy are watching together on television the Earth orbital flight he made in 1962. Astronaut Scott Carpenter is the second astronaut In the history of NASA, the Earth orbital flight lasted nearly five hours.

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A couple watched a baseball game from a TV set outside a small hotel.Photo taken in 1962.

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The crowd watched the speech of US President John F. Kennedy via television.Photo taken in 1962.

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Male singer Frank Sinatra follows his son, Frank Jr.- then 21 years old to be an MC for a television show.Photo taken in 1964.

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TVs using 'antennae antennas' are placed in an electronics showroom.Photo taken in Elmira, New York, USA, in 1966.

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Actress Diahann Carroll and journalist David Frost watched the image of themselves appearing in various talk shows.

Update 11 December 2019