1925 in television

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This is a list of television-related events in 1925.

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Contents 1 Global television events 2 Births

[edit] Global television events

Month	Day	Event
March	25	John Logie Baird held the first public demonstration of his "televisor" at the Selfridges department store on London's Oxford Street. The demonstrations continued through April. The system consisted of 30 lines and 12.5 pictures per second.
June	13	Charles Francis Jenkins achieves the first synchronized transmission of a moving silhouette (shadowgraphs) and sound, using 48 lines, and a mechanical system. A 10-minute film of a miniature windmill in motion was sent across five miles from Anacostia to Washington, DC. The images were viewed by representatives of the National Bureau of Standards, the United States Navy, the Department of Commerce, and others. Jenkins called this "the first public demonstration of radiovision".
July	13	Vladimir Zworykin applies for a patent for color television.
October	02	John Baird achieves the first recognisable television image (more than a mere silhouette) in his laboratory. Baird drags office boy, William Taynton, in front of the camera to become the first face on television.

[edit] Births

Month	Day	Name	Occupation/Accolades
January	11	Grant Tinker	U.S. producer, NBC network executive, "the man who saved NBC".
	23	Danny Arnold	U.S. producer, actor, stand-up comedian (d. 1995).
April	22	George Cole	U.K Actor	May	02	Roscoe Lee Browne	U.S. actor.
June	25	June Lockhart	U.S. actress.
July	06	Merv Griffin	U.S. talk show host.
August	15	Mike Connors	U.S. actor of Armenian descent.
October	16	Angela Lansbury	British-born actress.
November	11	June Whitfield	British actress.
December	13	Dick Van Dyke	U.S. actor.