Days of DuMont

08/10/2023

TV was mostly used for military training during WWII. Toward the war’s end, soldiers doubled as actors as described in this TV review from late spring 1944.

20/09/2023

When TV was new.

12/09/2023

DuMont telecruisers

10/09/2023

Allen B. DuMont, founder of DuMont Television and Network holds one of his company’s picture tubes. 3D effect by Facebook. Your grandkids will believe you if you tell them it’s an FBI agent holding a part from the Roswell UFO.

09/09/2023

New design, new shows coming. Stay tuned!

18/08/2023

Only us old folks will get this one.

31/07/2023

When musicians side-hustle.

23/07/2023

This clipping from the May 1957 issue of Television Digest seems to be DuMont’s last gasp. Besides the fantasy (and likely jibe at Paramount) of buying KTLA, the proposition of a 7 TV / 7 radio station network is interesting. DuMont never had a radio network, and that was one of their pain points. The structure is similar to what Kaiser did a decade later.

15/07/2023

These images where shared by a follower who works at a television station. These DuMont racks are still in use today. Maybe it's a minor thing, but it makes me wonder if an existing inventory exists of their entire product range, or if like much of DuMont, their product history exists only in scraps here and there.

07/07/2023

Where I learned the output isn’t always worth the reward. Most painful ice cream ever. I think I was 7. My neighbor had one of these and about five of us kids took turns. I think the adults manipulated us for free labor.

24/06/2023

This image of a 6” wide DuMont sticker was msg’d to me with the story that it was found in Germany. I remember seeing a 1970s style DuMont branded portable TV from Germany for sale on eBay around eight years ago. The eBay description claimed that DuMont branded TVs sold in Europe until the 70s. Since seeing the sticker, I’ve dug around for more information about DuMont licensing and found that a Canadian company made TVs with the DuMont name in the early 60s. Anyone know any more of the story about later DuMont televisions?

20/06/2023

My nose is burning.

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19/06/2023

TIME TRAVEL OPPORTUNITY: The Old American Barn Dance ran on DuMont on Sundays night at 10:30pm, and that’s right about now, 70 years later. Streaming on Days of DuMont.

11/06/2023

Ernie Kovac’s wife, Edie Adams, is sourced in the following article with a detailed story of how, why, and WHERE the DuMont archive was dumped.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dumont-network-gleason-lost-kinescope

09/06/2023

Here's another of my Roku Channels. It's totally free. Roads to Romance contains the nine travelogue films Chevrolet made in the late 1940s to promote family road trips.

WWII was over. It was a new world. Roads to Romance were travelogue films made by Chevrolet to promote the experience of family roads trips. Watch them here just as they were shown in movie theaters in 1949.

06/06/2023

This looks to me to be Space Cadet and that’s Jan Merlin sitting on the bottom bunk on the left. It’s a WABD camera and I know the show ran for a season on DuMont, but I figured it would have been syndicated and not filmed at WABD like their flagship Captain Video. Is this Captain Video? Anyone know?

21/05/2023

Yup

14/05/2023

“She’s a wonderful girl, that Mabel.”

Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there.

*Rocky King, Detective

25/04/2023

Step into the shadowy world of “Charlie Wild, Private Detective”, a gripping crime drama set in the seedy underbelly of 1950s NYC.

👀 one of the series’ few existing episodes, streaming now on Days of DuMont. Filed under Crime Dramas.

08/04/2023

Beautiful. Sent to me by Pyeatt, a back plate of a DuMont television. Perhaps one day long ago, a family dog rested under a backplate like that enjoying the tube’s heat wondering why the humans were in the other side.

30/03/2023

Here’s an episode of crusty, dusty, but never rusty Rocky King, Detective, with the case “In the Bag”. New to our channel. For great old tv check out Free the Kinescopes on YouTube. More Rocky to come . . .

25/03/2023

Stay tuned.

23/03/2023

Gene Roddenberry quit the LAPD and began writing for TV full time after selling two stories to “I Led 3 Lives.”