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"The fashionable thing to wear these days is a television set." - Alan Whicker.
Tonight's Alan Whicker is clearly delighted to demonstrate an extraordinary new invention, The Electrocula - a 30 ounce portable television set that can be worn on the head. They system projects a television picture onto an adjustable monocle in front of the viewer's eye, enabling them to watch television while doing other things.
It's TV on the go - perhaps one day, we will all be able to watch television on the move.
Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 3 May, 1962.
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"The fashionable thing to wear these days is a television set." - Alan Whicker.
Tonight's Alan Whicker is clearly delighted to demonstrate an extraordinary new invention, The Electrocula - a 30 ounce portable television set that can be worn on the head. They system projects a television picture onto an adjustable monocle in front of the viewer's eye, enabling them to watch television while doing other things.
It's TV on the go - perhaps one day, we will all be able to watch television on the move.
Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 3 May, 1962.
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