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| | CONK! Encyclopedia: Television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | Mechanically scanned color television was demonstrated by Bell Laboratories in June 1929 using three complete systems of photoelectric cells, amplifiers, glow-tubes, and color filters, with a series of mirrors to superimpose the red, green, and blue images into one full color image. |
 | | Television's first prime time network color series was The Marriage, a situation comedy broadcast live by NBC in the summer of 1954. |
 | | Television usage in the United States skyrocketed after World War II with the lifting of the manufacturing freeze, war-related technological advances, the gradual expansion of the television networks westward, the drop in set prices caused by mass production, increased leisure time, and additional disposable income. |
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