TRAPPED BY TELEVISION

TRAPPED BY TELEVISION. Del Lord, dir. USA: Columbia, 1936.

TV surveillance used to trap criminals (Ed Naha, Science Fictionary). For different plot summary, see IMDb entry.The dating for television gets complex (and sometimes controversial), but note that " on April 30, 1939, the first-ever regularly scheduled television broadcast began with scenes from the just-opened New York World's Fair," so whatever the exact dates,, if Naha correctly summarizes its content, this film caught some implications of television quite early in TV's development. See also Wikipedia entry.