Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: TO NEW HORIZONS Produced by Jam Handy Organization for Chevrolet Motor Company. Completed December 15, 1941. Remade 1955. Commercial television was authorized in the U.S. on July 1, 1941, although regular broadcasting had been in progress for at least six years. This film, released one week after Pearl Harbor, showed how advanced the Magic in the Air development of television had already become, although it would soon be stalemated until the end of 1941 the war. Even though there were no more than several (excerpts) thousand sets installed in American homes, this film expressed the surprisingly modern idea that television would enable citizens to avoid attending public events and, in fact, be an attractive substitute to participating in public space. This has in large part become true. Fur ...