What does a passenger dirigible have to do with anything?
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A microfilm viewer is definitely the inspiration, but is this 1930s? It looks more like 1950s to me. Even then, notice that the thing holding the screen is huge. I can’t find an image of a definitively 1930s one, but I did find this proof of concept for a home one from 1935. Pretty different form factor.
That is an impressively accurate-looking future TV for something drawn in 1934. TVs of the time looked something like this:
41·15 days agoIt’s better on desktop. The thing they show first on mobile is the sidebar there.
Ohh, now I get what you’re talking about. I was referring to this picture looking 50s rather than 30s:
The OP image is established to have been drawn in 1934.