CAST AND CREW
The Farnsworth Invention
Release Date: Unspecified Release - Wide Release
Distributor: New Line Cinema (Warner Bros.)
Film Genre: Drama
Country: United States
Distributor: New Line Cinema (Warner Bros.)
Film Genre: Drama
Country: United States
This is about how Philo Farnsworth invented TV technology and was robbed of the glory by broadcast pioneer David Sarnoff. The film is set in the late 1920s, when the 22-year-old genius from Utah became the first to capture a moving image in a box. That led to a skirmish with rival scientist Vladimir Zworykin, who years earlier had filed a patent for the technology even though he hadn't made it work until Farnsworth's invention. Since Zworykin was under the employ of radio giant RCA and Sarnoff, the young mogul who ran the broadcasting giant engaged in a take-no-prisoners battle for control of the invention that would change the world.
MOVIE NEWS ITEMS
2004-04-30
Variety reports that Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme will team-up and write for the project at New Line.
Variety reports that Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme will team-up and write for the project at New Line.
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