2005 Volume 67 Pages 140-155
It is often said that Japanese television has a half-century history. But since the late 1920s, various immature televisions were partly open to the public in the form of the prototype test. This paper presents the process of how they had contributed to gathering of people as main attraction of several events. First, some radio amateurs made public trial models built with the components purchased abroad. In contrast, throughout the 1930s, domestically-developed televisions on exhibition had symbolized “Japan” as technological powerhouse. Based on these circumstances, it is important to analyze the current conditions of institutionalized television broadcast in relative ways.
