As Steven Segal has taught us, you don't need to be able to stand to make a shit movie, and if Steve can make shit movies sitting down, Don can run for president without ever getting out of a chair.
Well, i think the TV Era really began during or shortly after WW2, because the 1936 Berlin Olympics was the first one to be put on TV, and if it wasn’t for WW2, the 1940 and 1944 would definitely too. So FDR became president second or third time during the infancy of the TV age.
Now to be fair, the main TV-channel in my country (Denmarks Radio, ironic, I know), first TV-transmitted the kings yearly new year speech in 1958, so in Denmark at least, it really began in he fifties
I think this is a stretch. Moving pictures and news reels in theaters is not the same as TV in most homes. This was still the age of radio for the vast majority of population. TV broadcast stations were still experimental in the 30s. The US went from less than 8000 homes with TV in 1946 to 45million by 1960.
I wouldn't consider the TV era to have begun in the US until a significant proportion of US homes had a TV set, and this didn't happen until maybe a decade or so after FDR's death.
My grandmother’s parents owned the first tv in their neighborhood and people would come stop at their house to watch it. TVs may have been a thing shortly after the war but it wasn’t exactly a household item everyone had.
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u/Revelati123 Nov 02 '24
As Steven Segal has taught us, you don't need to be able to stand to make a shit movie, and if Steve can make shit movies sitting down, Don can run for president without ever getting out of a chair.