Radio: TV Moves Forward

In Manhattan, the Paramount Theater threw its audience into an uneasy uproar by flashing on the screen, without warning, a television picture of the audience at the Paramount Theater, watching itself being televised.

In Madrid, 2,000 teleficionados paid 15 pesetas ($1.40) a head to see a special RCA exhibition: Spain's first telecast of a bull fight. When the image blurred at the big moment, a few yelled "estafa" (swindle) and got their money back.

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