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Television Facts

March12

I thought you might find this interesting, Movie and TV Fast Facts. These are some interesting facts about movies and television. Whether you grew up watching one of the those big console televisions or have the luxury of watching flat screens on tv mounts, you will find these facts interesting. Here are a few to get you started:

Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of television in 1926 in Soho, London. Ten years later there were only 100 TV sets in the world.

Today there are more than 1,5 billion TV sets in use.

China has the most TV sets (500 million).

The first TV interview was made with Irish actress Peggy O’Neil in April 1930.

The first TV commercial was a 20-second ad for a Bulova clock, broadcasted by WNBT, New York during a game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies in July 1941. Bulova paid $9 for that first TV spot. Bulova also was the first watch in space.

The 1967 Russian movie War and Peace had 120,000 extras. The South Korean movie Monster Wang-magwi from the same year featured 157,000 extras. The 1945 German movie Kolberg had 187,000 and the movie with the most extras, the 1982 British movie Gandhi, featured 300,000 extras.

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