[Family watching a DuMont Duoscopic Television with special Polaroid glasses and earpieces : black-and-white photoprint.]
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: AC0018-0000002.tif (AC Scan No.)
name: label: Collector
content: Du Mont, Allen B. (Allen Balcom), 1901-1965
label: Collection Creator
content: Du Mont, Allen B. (Allen Balcom), 1901-1965
title: label: Topic
content: Duoscopic television
topic: label: Topic
content: Family -- 1940-1960
label: Topic
content: Stereoscopy
label: Topic
content: Polarizing lenses
label: Topic
content: Television
creator: label: Collector
content: Du Mont, Allen B. (Allen Balcom), 1901-1965
setName: label: See more items in
content: Allen Balcom Du Mont Collection
label: See more items in
content: Allen Balcom Du Mont Collection / Series 9: Allen B. DuMont Laboratories, Inc.: Marketing and Sales / 9.2: Sales publications / Duoscope marketing
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Item (Silver gelatin on paper., 8.1" x 10.0".)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1955
container: label: Container
content: Box 36 (Series 9), Folder 18
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Staged commercial photograph with models. This type of television played two different stations simultaneously because it was actually two televisions in the same cabinet, with mirrors and polarizers to combine the images. One station was visible and audible without special equipment (?); the second station required the Polaroid glasses and earpieces, so two programs could be viewed on one television by two different viewers or groups. While Polaroid glasses were generally used to combine two images in the viewers' minds, in this case the glasses were used to separate superimposed visual signals. The Duoscopic was never introduced to the consumer market because it was a "goofy idea," as some commentators have written--it was merely an alternative to buying two televisions.