抄録
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.
