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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated March 4, 1950 partially reads, "The story of ABC Television Center in Hollywood, largest television base in the world, is the story of what the best minds in the industry are convinced represents an epochal turning point in the current accelerated development of this phenomenal new entertainment medium... With its 23-acre development on the site of the storied old Vitagraph Studios in the heart of movieland, ABC has given its television operation a mammoth home in keeping with the exciting and unprecedented promise of television as a vehicle for bringing entertainment to more millions of Americans than have ever before been reached by an instrument of man's invention." Photograph caption reads, "Aerial view of the world's largest television headquarters - ABC Television Center. Comprising 23 acres it is the biggest video base in the nation."
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
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