Some choice tidbits from Dumont Television Network. Dumont was the first major TV network in the 1940s, when people thought of TV as either a passing fad, or just "radio with pictures". When Dumont went out of business a few years later and their quarters taken over by NBC, almost ALL the kinescopes of ALL the programs from their six- or seven-year reign of popularity were dumped into New York's East River. No kidding, they literally dumped all the records of Dumont's existence into the water to free up storage space. Someone actually dove after them and salvaged a few kinescopes, which is what you are seeing here. If they look a little dodgy, that's why.
