"Skee Turner" Side 1, No date given.

Item — track: 24

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Scope and Contents

Pem talks about many people being let go when they moved from Philco. They struggle to remember how many people were kept and how many were let go.
Skee said he had a huge amount of records and photos but they burned in a fire.
Skee talks about a business agreement they had with the Baird Company and their work on another deal with a German company named Fernseh.
They talk about his negotiation on the royalty clause of the contract with the German company, and they were unable to find a deal that satisfied both parties.
They walked away from the deal initially but came back to the same company and were able to find a deal that satisfied both parties.
He talks about their anxiety to start actually moving forward with productions of television as opposed to simply research.
They talk about the start of world war two and how they had hoped that the development of the television would help to curb war in general.
There are approximately three minutes of empty space at the end of the tape.

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Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection material in English.

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