Living Rooms

The set in domestic use, as an object in a room. Families around a console, the neighbour's house and the pub, rooftop aerials, remote controls, folding trays, and the same scene in Soviet, Japanese, British, American, Chinese and Indian homes. A television is a piece of furniture before it is anything else, and the room shows how it was used.

Part of Television

127 moments in this segment.

1. 1931 - Pete the Fish Fry King New Orleans 1931 MLK - Interior Shelves. The interior of Pete the Fish Fry King, a bar and restaurant in Central City, New Orleans, with a television among the shelves. A bar set is watched communally and is chosen for where it can be seen from, not for how it looks.
2. 1950 - Circa 1950's Television Remote Control made by Motorola. A Motorola television remote control of about 1950, from the first generation of domestic remotes. Early units were wired to the set or worked by light or ultrasound, and all of them existed to save the viewer standing up.
3. 1950 - Crib and TV, circa 1950. A crib beside a monochrome television with rabbit ears antenna, about 1950. The indoor V shaped aerial had to be adjusted by hand for each channel, which is why it sat on top of the set rather than on the roof.
4. 1950 - Kulutusosuuskuntien Keskusliiton kokoelma D1974 11121F. A child watching TV. / Lapsi katsomassa TV:ta. photographer unknown / kuvaaja tuntematon 1950's / 1950-luku Finland Finnish Museum of Photography / Suomen valokuvataiteen museo.
5. 1953 - Vidor television set, circa 1953, Epping Forest District Museum. "Vidor" television (presumably Vidor Batteries?) circa 1953. On display in Epping Forest District Museum. Label reads: Vidor Television About 1953 This television was bought by a family in Ongar to watch the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.
6. 1953 - 1953: Driving the QUEEN'S CORONATION route | BBC Newsreel | Iconic News Stories | BBC Archive. Driving the coronation route in 1953, from BBC newsreel. US household penetration ran from 0.5 percent in 1946 to 55.7 percent in 1954 and 90 percent by 1962, faster than the telephone, the car or the refrigerator.
7. 1953 - Elizabeth Is Queen (1953 Coronation Documentary) | British Pathé. Elizabeth Is Queen, the British Pathé coronation documentary. British households with television went from 15,000 in 1947 to 15.1 million by 1968, and the 1953 coronation is the single largest step in that curve.
8. 1953 - Queen Elizabeth II Coronation in London, 1953 Colour 16mm Home Movies. Colour 16mm home movies of the coronation in London in 1953. British households with television rose from 15,000 in 1947 to 15.1 million by 1968.
9. 1953 - 1953 London, Queen Elizabeth II Coronation, Home Movies. Home movies of the 1953 coronation in London. Amateur film is where the actual domestic arrangements survive.
10. 1953 - Queen's Coronation Celebrations in Scotland, 1953 - Archive Film 1033078. Coronation celebrations in Scotland in 1953, from a film archive. The image of a whole street gathered round one set describes a short window, roughly 1948 to 1955, when sets existed but were not yet common.
11. 1953 - Elizabeth II Coronation Day Parade, 1953 UK Town. Coronation day in a British town in 1953, filmed locally. The communal viewing that day happened in homes, pubs and in front of shop windows alike.
12. 1954 - Western Germany - The Land And The People (1954). West Germany, its land and people in 1954, which is the period when German households were first acquiring sets. German pre-war production was only about 1,600 sets, so the domestic market really begins here.
13. 1954 - Rikidōzan（力道山） 生年月日：1924年11月14日 没年月日：1963年12月15日. Rikidozan, born 14 November 1924 and died 15 December 1963, the wrestler whose bouts filled the Japanese street television crowds. The hardware fact is that the set was public property before it was domestic property.
14. 1954 - 力道山〜馬場&猪木BI砲〜J鶴田まで～激動!!テレビ・プロレス25年史（1978放送）1/2. A 1978 broadcast history of twenty five years of television wrestling in Japan, built on the Rikidozan era. On 19 February 1954 crowds gathered at street televisions to watch Rikidozan fight Masahiko Kimura; public sets in squares and stations are how most Japanese first saw television, because private ownership was still rare.
15. 1955 - Vintage Remote King Corporal Remote Sound Control For Television, Made In USA, Circa 1955. This is an example of what a TV remote was like back in the 1950s. It sold for $9.95 and came in ivory or mahogany. According to the instructions, you had to take off the back of the television and splice the remote wires into the speaker wires.
16. 1955 - Living the American Dream, 1950s Suburban Life. Suburban American life in the 1950s, with the set in the room. The image of the whole street gathering round one set is real but describes a short window, roughly 1948 to 1955, when sets existed but were not yet common.
17. 1955 - Ideal Homes Exhibition (1950-1959). The Ideal Home Exhibition in the 1950s, where the television was sold as part of a way of living rather than as an appliance. The aerial is part of the domestic hardware: rooftop arrays, indoor rabbit ears and later the satellite dish all had to be fitted, aimed and adjusted.
18. 1955 - Loewe Fernseher 50er Jahre. A Loewe television of the 1950s, filmed by a German film museum. Loewe was one of the German makers whose sets defined the domestic interior there.
19. 1955 - 1950s, USA, Families Watching TV. American families watching television in the 1950s. US household penetration ran from 0.5 percent in 1946 to 55.7 percent in 1954 and 90 percent by 1962, one of the fastest adoptions of any domestic object in history.
20. 1955 - 1950s USA, Lonely Housewife Heating Up TV Dinner, Watching TV. A 1950s American housewife heating a television dinner and watching television. The TV dinner and the TV tray are furniture that exists only because of the set.
21. 1956 - 1956: Vällingby - Life in Europe's Most Modern Town | Panorama | BBC Archive. Vallingby in 1956, presented as Europe most modern town. New-build housing of the period was designed around the appliances it was expected to hold.
22. 1957 - Tytöt katsovat televisiota olohuonessa. Girls watching television in a living room in Finland in 1957, photographed in black and white. The set sits low against the wall with the chairs turned towards it, which is the arrangement that made the television the focal point of a room.
23. 1957 - 1957 : Le dimanche à Paris | Archive INA. Sunday in Paris in 1957, from the French national audiovisual institute. French manufacture began in 1936 and the domestic set arrives through the 1950s and 1960s.
24. 1958 - SABA-corded-TV-remote-left. A photo of a SABA TV remote control with an attached cord. This photo was taken during a visit to the Museum of American Heritage where the TV remote was on display. The Early Television Museum shows a similar remote for the SABA P 1026 H TV set which was of German origin and which dated back to 1958 through 1963.
25. 1958 - 1958: Life of a LONDON FAMILY | Eye to Eye | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive. The life of a London family in 1958, filmed for a BBC documentary strand. Domestic observational film of this period shows the set in situ rather than posed.
26. 1959 - Zhovten watching Kyiv TV. The family and neighbours of a tractor driver from the Zhovten collective farm in the Maryinsky district, in what is now the Donetsk region, watching television together. One set on a collective farm served an audience drawn from several households, which is how rural Soviet viewing worked.
27. 1959 - Television Research (1959). A 1959 British Pathé item on television research, showing sets being studied in use. US household penetration ran from 0.5 percent in 1946 to 55.7 percent in 1954 and 90 percent by 1962, faster than the telephone, the car or the refrigerator.
28. 1959 - 1959年 「昭和の日常」「秋の山」8ミリフィルム映像 / 8mm film / Old japanese life 1959. Eight millimetre home movie footage of ordinary Japanese life in 1959. Domestic film of this period is the only honest record of what rooms actually looked like when a set arrived.
29. 1959 - ВЕРНЫЕ СЕРДЦА советский фильм (1959) Архив Истории СССР. A Soviet feature film from 1959, included for the domestic interiors and the place of the set within them. The pub and the shop window are the underrated venues, and they belong with retail rather than with the domestic story.
30. 1959 - Jawaharlal Nehru’s first TV appearance | Archives | BBC News India. Jawaharlal Nehru first television appearance, from the BBC India archive. Indian television begins as an experimental service in 1959 and only becomes a mass domestic object in the 1980s.
31. 1960 - 1960: Housing Standards in Britain | Enquiry | Homes and Housing | BBC Archive. Housing standards in Britain in 1960, from the BBC archive. The size and layout of the room is what determined what kind of set could be sold into it.
32. 1960 - CMの歴史　Part1　History of Japanese TV commercials 1953 1993. A history of Japanese television commercials from 1953 onward. Included here for the domestic sets and rooms visible in the material rather than for the advertising itself.
33. 1961 - TV Remote Control (Tuner) (1961) - RCA's Picture TV and Remote Control Combo - CharlieDeanArchives. A 1961 RCA film on the television remote control tuner. The remote is the piece of television hardware that most changed how the set was used in the room.
34. 1962 - Television to Hagahemmet home for elderly in Tammisaari. Staff and residents examining a newly delivered television at a Finnish care home in 1962, among them the ombudsman and the headmistress. A set arriving at an institution was an event worth photographing, since it was bought for a whole community rather than a household.
35. 1963 - Kulutusosuuskuntien Keskusliiton kokoelma D1974 11560DxxA. Smallholder Lempi Kuikka with a TV-set she won from a competition organized by Kuluttaja magazine. There is no picture on the screen, as the Kuikkas' house didn't have electricity. Original caption: "Lempi Kuikka trying out the buttons of the magnificent PYE television, although there is no picture to see." (Kuluttaja 33/1963, p.
36. 1965 - Lal Bahadur Shastri's rare TV appearance: 'I belong to the category of common men' | BBC News India. Lal Bahadur Shastri rare television appearance. Early Indian television is a state project with very few receivers.
37. 1966 - 6th Psychological Operations Battalion, TV Director and a Vietnamese cameraman watch monitors. A television director from the 6th Psychological Operations Battalion and a Vietnamese cameraman watching monitors during a programme for ARVN. Television was built into the conduct of the Vietnam War on the transmitting side as well as in American living rooms.
38. 1967 - Vietnamese civilians watch TV at Saigon market. The Vietnamese government has provided a TV set in the Saigon Market place, so that the local populace may watch the nightly RVN TV broadcasts. NARA 111-CCV-230-CC40607.
39. 1967 - Vietnamese civilians watch TV on the Saigon riverfront. The Vietnamese Government has provided a TV set along the waterfront, which receives the nightly broadcast from RVN TV studio. Local crowds come on foot, and by vehicle to watch the news and drama that is aired nightly. NARA 111-CCV-230-CC40608.
40. 1967 - Vietnamese civilians watching TV at Saigon market. The Vietnamese Government has provided a TV set in the Saigon Market Place, so that the local populace may watch the nightly RVN TV broadcasts. NARA 111-CCV-230-CC40609.
41. 1967 - 1967: The Man With a HOME COMPUTER | Tomorrow's World | Retro Tech | BBC Archive. A man with a home computer in 1967, from Tomorrow World. Domestic screens before the home computer were televisions, and the two converge from here.
42. 1968 - Vietnam War on television. An American couple watching Vietnam War footage on a television in their living room. The set is positioned as furniture and the war appears inside it, which is the arrangement that changed how the conflict was argued about at home.
43. 1968 - Watching Vietnam War Footage. A man and woman watching documentary footage of the Vietnam War on television. Vietnam is routinely called the first television war, and this is the domestic end of that claim: the fighting arriving in an ordinary sitting room.
44. 1969 - 1969 - when man landed on the moon for the first time. Archive coverage of the 1969 landing, from Associated Press. The image of a whole street gathered round one set describes a short window, roughly 1948 to 1955, when sets existed but were not yet common.
45. 1969 - Lyndon Johnson Watches Apollo 11 Launch, 1969 Moon Landing, HD. Lyndon Johnson watching the Apollo 11 launch on a monitor in 1969. The aerial is part of the domestic hardware: rooftop arrays, indoor rabbit ears and later the satellite dish all had to be fitted, aimed and adjusted.
46. 1969 - Man on the Moon: Apollo 11 Moon Landing as it was Broadcast (1969) | ITN Special. The Apollo 11 moon landing as it was broadcast in 1969, from ITN. The moon landing is the second great communal viewing event and the one that made a television feel necessary rather than optional.
47. 1969 - WATCH: Footage from the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing. Footage from the 1969 Apollo 11 landing as transmitted. Stan Lebar team built the lunar camera; what households saw was the output of purpose-built television hardware in an environment nothing else survived.
48. 1969 - 1969: Was the MOON LANDING Worth the Money? | Panorama | BBC Archive. A 1969 Panorama asking whether the moon landing was worth the money, which is the domestic reception of the event rather than the event. British households with television rose from 15,000 in 1947 to 15.1 million by 1968.
49. 1969 - USA Apollo Viewers. Apollo viewers in the United States watching the landing on television. The pub and the shop window are the underrated venues, and they belong with retail rather than with the domestic story.
50. 1969 - Moon Landing Spectators, Families, Camping, 1969, HD. Spectators and families camping to watch the moon landing in 1969. People travelled to be near a screen, which is the behaviour that defines the communal era.
51. 1970 - RIAN archive The Borshagin's at home. The Borshagin family, workers at a weaving factory, resting at home in front of their television. Soviet press photography routinely framed domestic viewing as the reward for industrial work, which is why the family is identified by their factory.
52. 1971 - 1971: Mums of the 70s | BBC Archive. Mothers of the 1970s filmed at home, with the room and its set visible throughout. US household penetration ran from 0.5 percent in 1946 to 55.7 percent in 1954 and 90 percent by 1962, faster than the telephone, the car or the refrigerator.
53. 1972 - 1972: 84-year-old woman has an INDOOR CARAVAN | Nationwide | Classic BBC Clips. An 84-year-old woman with an indoor caravan in 1972. Included for the domestic interior and how the television sits inside an unusual one.
54. 1972 - 1972: Moving to a "Town of the 21st Century" | Scene | BBC Archive. Moving into a town of the twenty first century in 1972, from the BBC archive. British households with television rose from 15,000 in 1947 to 15.1 million by 1968.
55. 1975 - 1960's housing in the 1970's. Archive film 41309. 1960s housing filmed in the 1970s, showing the rooms that sets ended up in. The aerial is part of the domestic hardware: rooftop arrays, indoor rabbit ears and later the satellite dish all had to be fitted, aimed and adjusted.
56. 1975 - Young Girl Playing And Watching Tv (1970-1979). A young girl playing and watching television in the 1970s, filmed as domestic footage. The image of a whole street gathered round one set describes a short window, roughly 1948 to 1955, when sets existed but were not yet common.
57. 1976 - UltraschallFB ITT ca1976. An ITT Schaub Lorenz television remote control of about 1976 that worked by ultrasound. Ultrasonic remotes struck a small metal bar to make a tone above hearing, and they could be set off by jangling keys.
58. 1977 - 1977: EXTRAORDINARY woman remembers the dawn of TV | Voice of the People | BBC Archive. A woman remembering the dawn of television, recorded by the BBC in 1977. First-hand recollection of what it was like to be among the first households with a set.
59. 1978 - Ideal Computer Programm Cassette. An ITT Schaub-Lorenz colour television remote control of 1978, working by ultrasound or by a slot connection. Ultrasonic remotes were mechanical: pressing a key struck a bar that rang at a frequency the set recognised.
60. 1978 - Mk Fernbedienung. A Philips television remote control made in 1978. By the late 1970s the remote had become a standard fitting rather than an option, and infrared was replacing ultrasound.
61. 1978 - TV remote control (1978) using ultrasonic or slot connection, for color TV for ITT Schaub-Lorenz. An ultrasonic television remote control sold in 1978 with eight programme buttons. Eight was ample at the time, since a viewer in that region could receive only three Swiss, two German and two Austrian services.
62. 1979 - Pat Schroeder CCTV 1979. Representative Patricia Schroeder watching a session of Congress on closed circuit television in her office in 1979. Closed circuit feeds put the chamber onto a screen down the corridor, changing how members followed business they were not attending.
63. 1980 - Свет в окне 1980 Фильм Архив Истории СССР. A Soviet film from 1980 showing domestic life and its furniture. The pub and the shop window are the underrated venues, and they belong with retail rather than with the domestic story.
64. 1980 - Zakir Hussain’s rare 1980 interview: ‘I heard tabla when I was two days old’ | BBC Archives. A 1980 interview from Indian television. The Doordarshan era is when the set arrives in Indian households in numbers.
65. 1982 - Lettore CD - CDP 101.. Il lettore di Compact Disc presenta uno chassis in lamiera metallica verniciata di nero, dalla forma a parallelepipedo; all'interno dell'apparecchio sono racchiusi i circuiti elettronici e il laser per la lettura del disco. Il vassoio estraibile per l'inserimento del compact disc si trova sul lato anteriore, insieme ai pulsanti di comando. Alla sinistra del comparto per il disco si trovano il tasto per l'accensione (on/off), l'interruttore per la riproduzione con il timer, la boccola per il collegamento della cuffia e il selettore per la regolazione del volume della cuffia.
66. 1982 - 蹉跎岁月 第01集 电视剧 1982年 原著叶辛. A Chinese television drama from 1982. Chinese households acquire sets through the 1980s, the last of the big national adoption curves and the one that fed the modern manufacturing industry.
67. 1987 - 1987: Cast of NEIGHBOURS via SATELLITE! | Open Air | Classic Celebrity Interview | BBC Archive. A 1987 satellite link-up on a BBC programme. Satellite reception added a dish to the outside of the house, the last major addition to domestic television hardware before the flat panel.
68. 1989 - 1989 thought houses would look like this by 2020 | Tomorrow's World | Past Predictions | BBC Archive. A 1989 prediction of what houses would look like by 2020, from Tomorrow World. The screen is always in these predictions and is always the wrong shape.
69. 1990 - Ох, этот ужасный, ужасный телевизор (1990, Грузия-фильм). A 1990 Georgian film whose subject is the television set in the home, made at the end of the Soviet period. US household penetration ran from 0.5 percent in 1946 to 55.7 percent in 1954 and 90 percent by 1962, faster than the telephone, the car or the refrigerator.
70. 1992 - TV time. The TV they were watching was about 12" by 12" (300mm?) that was in a weird blue and white. There was raft attention to drivel.
71. 2002 - US Navy -N-0659H-002 USS Kitty Hawk Sailors monitors the ship's ILARTS system. At sea aboard USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) Mar. 24, 2002 -- Interior Communications Electrician 3rd Class Christopher Stough from St. Louis, MO, stands watch at the Integrated Launch and Recovery Television System (ILARTS).
72. 2003 - Cricket cheer. Original caption: Caption- "The Greatest Crowd Puller" Television is the greatest and fastest media of information these days. Wherever and whenever it is on, people stick to its screen to know the latest about the world. In the picture people seen watching and enjoying a live Cricket match, on a small television, setup specially on a roadside -just to watch the match between India and Pakistan.
73. 2003 - Match on TV. Original caption- "The Greatest Crowd Puller" Television is the greatest and fastest media of information these days. Wherever and whenever it is on, people stick to its screen to know latest about the world. In the picture people are seen watching and enjoying a live Cricket match, on a small television, setup specially on a roadside -just to watch the match between India and Pakistan.
74. 2005 - USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) TV. Truman (CVN 75) watch the all-hands broadcast in the crew mess decks during a ship-wide safety stand down. Carrier Air Wing Three (CVW-3) is embarked aboard Truman and is providing close air support and conducting intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions over Iraq. The Truman Strike Group is on a regularly scheduled deployment in support of the Global War on Terrorism.
75. 2006 - Fernsehen im Lazarett. Das Fernsehen in den Lazaretten. Eine kleine Abwechslung für die Verwundeten bietet der Fernsehapparat auf der Krankenstube. Die deutsche Reichspost stellt, um bettlägerige und nicht ausgehfähige Verwundete neben Rundfunk und vereinzelten Filmvorführungen auch an dem laufenden Kulturleben teilnehmen zu lassen, in Kürze in den Berliner Lazaretten weitere Fernsehempfänger auf.
76. 2006 - Football match in cinema. Football fans watching an England match in a cinema in the United Kingdom, on a high definition picture. Watching a broadcast in a cinema returns television to the communal viewing it began with.
77. 2006 - Watching World Cup 2006 TV at FamilyMart in Seoul. People watching the 2006 World Cup on a television in a FamilyMart convenience store at Cheongnyangni in Seoul. Communal viewing in a shop is one of television's oldest patterns and it survives wherever the event is bigger than the room.
78. 2007 - ACCSTV CS Multi-Channel Station in Ibaraki 2007. Monitors at a community cable television service in the Tsukuba science city area of Ibaraki, Japan. Local cable operators ran their own head end equipment, which is where the signal reaching subscribers was assembled.
79. 2007 - Home cinema 01. A home cinema built around a Sony 40 inch liquid crystal television with integrated digital and analogue tuners. Carrying both tuners is the mark of the switchover period, when broadcasts ran in parallel.
80. 2008 - Max watches Jay Weinberg 2008. Max Weinberg watches as his son Jay Weinberg takes over the drumsticks on "Born to Run". Max is standing in front of the big screen wearing a black shirt. Monday night, July 28, 2008 Giants Stadium, East Rutherford, NJ.
81. 2008 - Studio Alta's massive TV. The large screen on the face of Studio Alta in Shinjuku, Tokyo. A screen this size makes the street the room, which is the same relationship as the shop window crowd but at civic scale.
82. 2008 - Television in an apartment. Television and VCR in the living room of an apartment in Aspen Hill, Maryland. Ben Schumin is a professional photographer who captures the intricacies of daily life. This image may be used under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0.
83. 2008 - Twilight express Suite room sofa and TV. A sofa and television in a suite compartment of the Twilight Express sleeper train in Japan. Fitting a set into a moving compartment is a different design problem from fitting one into a room.
84. 2008 - US Navy -N-2456S-014 Interior Communications Electrician 3rd Class Daniel Whittington stands watch in the. 26, 2008) Interior Communications Electrician 3rd Class Daniel Whittington, from Liberty, Miss., stands watch in the integrated launch and recovery television surveillance control room to observe flight operations aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). 5th Fleet area of responsibility and are focused on reassuring regional partners of the United States commitment to security, which promotes stability and global prosperity. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class John Suits/Released).
85. 2008 - Wall-mounted Zenith TV and VCR. A wall mounted Zenith tube television with a video recorder, in an elementary school classroom in San Mateo, California. Bracketing a heavy tube set high in the corner was how schools kept it out of reach.
86. 2008 - Watching cricket. Pakistani immigrants watching a cricket match on television. Diaspora communities were among the earliest and heaviest users of satellite and cable services, because those services carried the matches and channels that domestic terrestrial broadcasting did not.
87. 2009 - FEMA - 39783 - DHS Leadership Inauguration Safety-Security Briefing. Washington, DC, January 19, 2009 --FEMA's Chris Geldart, Director, Office of National Capital Region Coordination (NCRC), FEMA Headquarters (far right); briefs the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Deputy Secretary, Paul Schneider (center); and the DHS Secreatry-Designate's councelor, Rand Beers (left); on the security and safety measures in place for response as needed during the Presidential Inauguration activities. Photo by Barry Bahler/FEMA.
88. 2009 - Watching TV at OKelly's. Members of Joint Task Force Guantanamo gather at O'Kelly's Irish Pub to view the National Geographic Channel's, "Explorer: Inside Guantanamo," April 5, 2009. The program was a behind-the-scenes look at life "inside the wire" of the detention facilities. JTF Guantanamo conducts safe, humane, legal and transparent care and custody of detainees, including those convicted by military commission and those ordered released.
89. 2010 - Geekhouse Higashinihonbashi. The interior of a shared house at Higashinihonbashi in Tokyo, with a television in the common room. Shared housing puts one set where a family home would have put it, watched by people who are not related.
90. 2011 - Couple looking at tv screen @ Museu da imagem. Braga, 2011. A couple seated in front of a screen at the Museu da Imagem in Braga, Portugal. The photographer set a timer and took a seat, so the picture records the act of watching rather than what was on.
91. 2011 - Havana - Cuba - 1684. Antenna reception troubles watching a TV football match in a Meat Market. Havana (La Habana), Cuba.
92. 2011 - Johannes-Hospital-2011 0009. A Siemens patient control handset in a German hospital, combining television and radio control with nurse call, lighting and telephone in a single unit. Hospitals merged the television remote into the bedside call system because a patient could only be expected to manage one device.
93. 2011 - Led tv in village. An LED television in an Indian village. Flat panels reached rural Indian households quickly once prices fell, skipping much of the tube era that Western homes went through.
94. 2011 - News of Osama's death in Afghanistan. Two US Army soldiers in Afghanistan watching President Obama announce the death of Osama bin Laden on television. Deployed soldiers received the news the same way and at the same time as the households they had left.
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96. 2012 - DDR-Museum Berlin Wohnzimmer 01. A typical East German living room reconstructed at the DDR Museum in Berlin, with the television as its focus. It is a museum reconstruction rather than a period photograph.
97. 2012 - Living room with 1960s objects. A living room furnished with 1960s objects, including seating by Isku and a lounge chair designed by Yrjö Kukkapuro for Avarte. The television is arranged as one component of a designed interior rather than as an appliance placed wherever it fitted.
98. 2012 - Philips 16C928-15S television - remote. A Philips television made in Belgium shown with its remote control. European set manufacture was still distributed across many national plants at this date, and the country of assembly is recorded on the set.
99. 2012 - Talent TV and Pong. A Talent television with a Pong console built into the same unit. Combining a set with a game in one cabinet was an early attempt to sell the television as something other than a receiver, years before consoles became separate purchases.
100. 2012 - Yanggakdo International Hotel room 2. A hotel room in the Yanggakdo International Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, with its television. The Yanggakdo is one of the few hotels foreign visitors are housed in, and its rooms are among the very few North Korean interiors that are freely photographed.
101. 2013 - ちびまる子. A child watching an animated programme on a television in an izakaya restaurant in Naha, Okinawa. A set in a small restaurant is shared property, watched by whoever is in the room.
102. 2013 - HK Hung Hom 康莊道 Hong Chong Road tunnel bus view 香港海底隧道 Cross-Harbour Tunnel n car interior Mar-2013. A television inside the Cross-Harbour Tunnel administration area in Hong Kong. Sets installed in working spaces are the least photographed part of television's domestic history and the most common.
103. 2013 - HK Mongkok night CityBus interior TV set Sai Yeung Choi Street Oct-2013. A television set inside a Citybus at night on Sai Yeung Choi Street in Mong Kok, Hong Kong. Screens fitted to buses put broadcast into a moving space with a captive audience.
104. 2013 - Indian man watching television on a exported TV from China in Cuttack, Odisha. A man in Cuttack, Odisha, watching a television exported from China. Chinese manufacturers supplied a large share of the Indian market as flat panels became affordable, so Indian households often skipped much of the tube era entirely.
105. 2014 - リアルタイム実況コメント字幕テロップ. A nabe party in Japan, with the television on in the room. A set left running during a gathering is doing what television mostly does, which is occupy a corner rather than command attention.
106. 2014 - Interieur van koffiehuis Aizen in de wijk Kamigyo in Kioto, -30 mei 2014 15：34. The interior of the Aizen coffee house in the Kamigyo ward of Kyoto, with a television in the room. A set in a café is a shared television, watched by whoever happens to be there, which is how most people first watched.
107. 2015 - Буфет № 1 (ретро кафе). Buffet № 1 (retro cafe) 13. A Soviet themed retro cafe on Lenin Street in Novosibirsk, furnished with period television equipment. The set is used as a prop to date the room, which is how obsolete hardware acquires a second life as decor.
108. 2015 - Patient lying in bed in intensive care unit of hospital with apparatuses and hemodialysis machine. A patient in an intensive care unit in Germany in 2015, with monitors above the bed and a haemodialysis machine alongside. In a hospital the screen above a bed is doing clinical work, and the same mounting hardware later carried a television for the patient.
109. 2016 - 3 Bedroom 2 Bath home in Ada, OK. $148,006. This beautiful house sits on 2.98 acres located on a dead end road in the country with the convenience of only being 2 miles from town, and is in the Ada City school district. This house is a cedar home with deck, fireplace, attic fan, carport, big closets in all rooms, and a large attic for great storage.
110. 2016 - 4 Chome Koyasumachi, Hachiōji-shi, Tōkyō-to 192-0904, Japan - panoramio. A room at Koyasumachi in Hachioji, Tokyo, with a television. Ordinary domestic interiors are rarely photographed deliberately, so street level survey images are often the only record of how sets actually sat in rooms.
111. 2016 - Bedroom with a almirah, a chair and TV on. A bedroom in Bangladesh with an almirah, a chair and the television switched on. The set shares the room with the wardrobe rather than occupying a dedicated living room, which is the more common arrangement worldwide.
112. 2016 - Bedroom with a almirah, a wall clock and TV on. A Bangladeshi bedroom with an almirah, a wall clock and a television in use. The flat panel sits on a shelf rather than a stand, fitted into the room that already existed.
113. 2016 - Crowd people are watching television at Tuen Mun. A crowd watching horse racing on a television at Tuen Mun in Hong Kong. Racing coverage drew public audiences to shared screens for decades, long after households owned sets of their own.
114. 2017 - A Room With A View. A television in a holiday cottage at Kildonan on the Isle of Arran, Scotland, with the view through the window behind it. Holiday lets fit a set as standard, so the television reaches places no household would put one.
115. 2017 - Hotel interior 2017. The interior of the Hotel Chinzanso in Tokyo, with a television fitted into the room. Japanese hotels replaced tube sets with panels early, because room depth is expensive in Japanese cities.
116. 2018 - HK Bus 268C upper deck interior Roadshow 路訊通 TV sets out of function no more December 2018. Screens on the upper deck of a Hong Kong bus, part of a commercial in-transit broadcast service and recorded here as no longer in operation. Transit screens created an audience that could not leave the room, and they were switched off once the advertising model behind them failed.
117. 2018 - Watching the Saints on Thanksgiving. Mansura, Louisiana. Watching football on television around the bonfire for Thanksgiving.
118. 2019-04-01 - Passers-by in Shinjuku watch Reiwa period announcement (1 April 2019). Passers-by at the east exit of Shinjuku station in Tokyo watching the lead up to the announcement of Japan's Reiwa era on a large outdoor screen. A crowd stopping in the street to watch a broadcast is the same behaviour that gathered outside shop windows in the 1950s.
119. 2019 - ASC Leiden - van de Bruinhorst Collection - Somaliland 2019 - 4726 - Somali National television. A screen. A screen carrying Somali National Television, showing a speaker addressing an audience through a bank of microphones at a book fair in July 2019. Somali broadcasting was rebuilt after the collapse of the state, and a public screen carrying the national channel is part of that reconstruction.
120. 2019 - Japanese office workers taking a break to watch the new era name being announced on TV. Japanese office workers pausing to watch the announcement of the new imperial era name on a television. Communal viewing of a scheduled national moment is one of the few things that still gathers people around a single screen.
121. 2020 - SonyBRAVIA PS2. A small Sony Bravia television with a games console built into its base, shown with the controller and remote. Integrating a console into the set was a way of selling a second television for a bedroom rather than a main living room.
122. 2022 - 1950s living room at the Ohio History Center June 2022. A 1950s style living room reconstructed at the Ohio History Center, with a working monochrome television. The room is a museum reconstruction rather than a period photograph, assembled to show how furniture was arranged around the set.
123. 2022 - Sony Vaio Laptop showing video with man lying in bed watching TV. On the laptop screen, a reflection of the man taking the photograph of the laptop is visible. The TV screen in the video running on the laptop has a background illumination called "DreamScreen".
124. 2022 - Televisore, frigobar e bollitore. A television, minibar and kettle in a room at the Hotel Le Mistral in Porto Vecchio, Corsica. The set sits in the standard row of room appliances, treated as one fitting among several.
125. 2022 - Televisore Samsung con telecomando. A Samsung television and its remote in a room at the Ibis Styles hotel in Ajaccio, Corsica. Chain hotels specify the same set across a whole estate, which is why hotel televisions are so uniform.
126. 2024-10-04 - President Biden speaks at a press briefing, Friday, October 4, 2024, in the James S. Brady Press Briefing. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Oliver Contreras).
127. 2026 - JP 日本 Japan 京都 Kyoto 四条通 Shijo Dori restaurant interior night June 2026 N13P 01. The interior of a restaurant on Shijo Dori in Kyoto at night, with a television running. A set in a restaurant is background for the room rather than something anyone sat down to watch.