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Title: Pay-as-you-see plan set for test
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1950
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Phonevision is a small machine developed at the Zenith laboratories which unscrambles or ungarbles reception. The pay-as-you-see device consists of a few tubes which can be installed on home television sets and will cost approximately $10 for installation, and will not interfere with "free" shows. The charge will go on the monthly phone bill.
Photograph caption dated March 13, 1950 reads, "How Pay-As-You-See Television Would Work - Image of Hugo Haas and Beverly Michaels in Movie, 'Pick-Up' Blurred Without 'Phonevision' (left), Clear After Payment (Right)."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00095950
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 102.
CARL0005060243
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33307
Subject: Haas, Hugo,--1903-1968
Michaels, Beverly
Pick-up (Motion picture)
Subscription television--United States
Motion picture actors and actresses--Czechoslovakia
Motion picture actors and actresses--United States
Television--United States
Telephones
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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