Tour of DuMont Teleset Plant
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Du Mont, Allen B. (Allen Balcom), 1901-1965
setName: label: See more items in
content: Allen Balcom Du Mont Collection
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content: Allen Balcom Du Mont Collection / Series 16: Audiovisual Materials
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1953
container: label: Container
content: Reel OF 18.8
label: Container
content: Box 1 (RV), Item AC0018-RV0008
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Moving Images
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: ¾" Umatic video (from kinescope), 18 min. Content: Thomas Goldsmith shows viewers around the East Patterson New Jersey DuMont plant, explaining the steps in manufacturing a DuMont "teleset." Includes scenes of  the production line – only women are assembling the chassis -- , testing the tubes, installing in cabinets, and packing televisions for shipment. Note the work force is well-integrated. At the start of the video, there is silent footage documenting the exterior of the plant, men working chassis and tubes, a television camera, test patters, and electronic tests. Allen B. Du Mont appears sitting in a Bergen County Police car talking on the telephone.