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Cat into Guinea Pig
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  • Cat into Guinea Pig
  • Felix the Cat has been turned into a grinning guinea pig as the subject used most often in the NBC experimental television studio, RCA Building, New York. Here you see Felix when transmitted with the early 60 line definition which has now been abandoned for the improved 441 line definition.
Date1937
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 5 1/16 × 3 3/4 in. (12.8 × 9.5 cm)
Sheet: 10 1/8 × 8 in. (25.7 × 20.3 cm)
Credit LineBarbara Levine and Paige Ramey Collection, museum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment
Object number2020.137.30.62
Non exposé

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ProvenanceBarbara Levine and Paige Ramey; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed in black, verso, top center: CAT INTO GUINEA PIG // Felix the Cat has been turned into a grinning guinea // pig as the subject used most often in the NBC experimental // television studio, RCA Building, New York. Here you see // Felix when transmitted with the early 60 line definition // which has now been abandoned for the improved 441 line // definition. // NBC photo // 2/25/37
Printed in black, verso, lower center: Job #5649 Neg. #2
Printed in black, verso, bottom center: 22 [on applied red sticker]

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