I don't remember any stripes and even at ten years of age, I suspected that my
uncle, even though he was an optomestrist, was mistaken about that greenish
shield. No one else ever had one. We certainly didn't, when we got our set a
few years later. Maybe by then, everyone had relaxed about this new fangled
thing called a television set. But I do remember watching Ed Murrow's See It
Now, which was a journalism program, and there was another one, something about
the world, which was also real journalism. We watched the Kefauver hearings and
Queen Elizabeth's ceremony when she became the queen.
Miriam
-----Original Message-----
From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2019 7:44 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: my uncle's TV, one more thing
That screen protecter reminds me, do you recall the clear sheet that had
stripes of green, brown and...one other color, maybe blue? It was supposed to
give the sense of color. Sylvania had a glowing tube around the screen to help
defuse the brightness of the screen. The doctors pretty much ruled out the
notion that staring at a TV screen could damage the eyes. Tire them, yes. But
no permanent damage.
Maybe brain damage.
Carl Jarvis
On 12/4/19, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It was a black and white, ten inch screen, in a TV consul, (famcy
piece of furniture. It had this greenish tinted clear glass or plastic
shield over the screen, in order to protect our eyes. Apparently, my
uncle thought people's eyes would be damaged by looking at the screen
directly.
Miriam