Farnsworth, had aspired to be an inventor since the age of six, writes Evan I. By the end of his life, he would hold more than patents related to television and other matters. On August 26, , he received a patent for the first totally electronic television system, about a decade after first having the idea that underlaid his invention. The biggest problem that inventors faced was how to transmit image data. Schwartz, who went on to write a book about Farnsworth, explains how it happened:.
As he plowed a potato field in straight, parallel lines, he saw television in the furrows. He envisioned a system that would break an image into horizontal lines and reassemble those lines into a picture at the other end. Only electrons could capture, transmit and reproduce a clear moving figure.
Within this same time period The Dating Game , Newly Weds and other relationship style reality programming was introduced, proving just how interesting audiences found the lives, love lives and dating struggles of their peers. These to shows although very different in tone and style, represent two arenas of reality television that have since become incredibly popular. COPS outlined the behind the scenes nature of an industry, another hugely popular realm of reality television that has become increasingly popular.
Today there are shows such as Dr. This documentary style reality TV is some of the most popular as people continue to be fascinated with the how, why and what that goes on behind the scenes. While in recent years the number of reality television programs has increased incredibly compared to what was being watched in years past, many of the formats are the same. From the time television was born, people were fascinated with seeing everyday people fight, claw, cry, laugh, love, struggle, work and find their way — all to the delight of the viewer.
But, before all that, reality TV had quite a fascinating history in the twentieth century. The genre began far earlier than people might realize, and it got its start with the hidden camera style, then moving into the pursuit of the real American family. Then and now, reality television is marked by its diverse subgenres, including popular competition shows as well as family-focused domestic explorations. Candid Camera is the oldest reality show , and it actually began on the radio in According to Les Brown's Encyclopedia of Television , the radio show was called Candid Microphone "and became so popular that it spawned a series of movie shorts using film cameras in place of concealed mikes.
The program has been revived several times through the decades, most recently in when it was hosted by Peter Funt and Mayim Bialik. An American Family is widely credited for birthing the reality TV genre, and Variety reported on it before its launch: Producer Craig Gilbert "set out to capture the living patterns and mentality of a fairly typical middle-America household but instead recorded the drama of a family in the process of coming apart.
An American Family captured marital problems, a son coming out as gay, and "a business crisis. A Death in an American Family. Just like it sounds, Real People was a reality program that captured the triumphs and challenges of real individuals. Subjects opened up to the camera crew about their toughest endeavors, from flying war planes to running across Canada. The series ran for six seasons from to and was produced by George Schlatter, who called it a "theater of reality.
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