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Journal Article
Lost in Space: Television as Science Fiction Icon
2008
Overview
\"During the early decades of film, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s, the popular perception of a competing media technology, television, was already beginning to take shape. Because the technology itself was still largely a futuristic fantasy, an icon often associated with science fiction, it frequently appears in science fiction films of the era and in a variety of roles, some positive but many others negative, even threatening.\" (Journal of Popular Film & Television) This essay explores the societal implications of emerging technology--specifically the relationship between television and 1920s and 1930s film and broadcasting. Examples of the relationship explored in film are provided, from the technological roots with Westinghouse, General Electric, Ford and RCA to the WWII-era perception of the \"vision machine\" bringing \"cin-ematization\" to \"the contemporary world.\" \"Television remained more a cultural idea than a practical appliance\" as \"the idea of television in our future heated the popular imagination as few technologies ever have.\"
