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Back in the out-at-elbow days of the depression '30s, a young Hungarian engineer named Peter Goldmark tried unsuccessfully to get a job with Radio Corp. of America. About the same time, an equally obscure Ohio researcher named Frank Stanton was brushed off with a form letter when he wrote to RCA's subsidiary...
...total investment of $100 a week RCA could have hired both men and saved itself many a future headache. Today, Frank Stanton is president of Columbia Broadcasting System and Peter Goldmark is CBS's top color-television engineer. Between them, they have led a series of determined assaults on RCA's vast, multimillion-dollar manufacturing, recording and broadcasting empire, are CBS's top men today in a serious threat to RCA's supremacy in television. Objective of their campaign: to sell the U.S. public CBS's brand of color television...
Tyrannous Child. The entire color uproar was brewed inside the head of slim, pensive Dr. Peter Carl Goldmark, 44, who plays bad chess and good cello, is described by a friend as "part child and part tyrant." Goldmark was discovered by the far-ranging Paul Kesten who,-in 1936, thought CBS should know something about the new medium of television. Peter Goldmark, educated as a physicist in Vienna and Berlin, had already done some TV work in Britain and seemed just the man. Since CBS hired him, the network has invested more than $3,000,000 in his projects...
...paper, CBS seems certain of collecting up to $150 million in royalty fees from patents on its exclusive color process developed by Hungarian-born Dr. Peter Goldmark. But, at week's end, CBS discovered it still had a fight on its hands...
Color Now. To the FCCommissioners and other nonscientific listeners, the workings of the systems seemed far less complicated than the arguments about their comparative virtues. The solidest single fact is that the CBS system, developed to high perfection by Dr. Peter C. Goldmark, turns out pictures which are bright, crisp, and at least as faithful as most colored movies. Their own special ill is a so-called "color flash." If the viewer looks away suddenly, he sees the picture momentarily in a single color, because of the persistence in the eye of the last one-color picture seen. A color...