Donald G. Godfrey is a broadcast educator, professional broadcaster, and historian. His many works include Philo T. Farnsworth: The Father of Television and the Historical Dictionary of American Radio. Godfrey is a past president of the national Broadcast Education Association (BEA), a former editor of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, and served as president of the National Council of Communication Associations (CCA).

"Almost eighty years following Jenkins' death, the story of his life and many achievements is finally being told."--Robin Vierbuchen Sproul, Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief, ABC News   "With his biography of Francis Jenkins (indeed, the first ever), Don Godfrey again demonstrates his "chops" as a historian willing to do the archival digging necessary to rescue a story worth telling. As in his earlier study of Philo Farnsworth, Godfrey sorts out the sometimes controversial pieces of a career that--for a time--seemed to show the way to widespread use of television. Especially interesting is Jenkins' creative work in both film and television at their very dawning. This is a life well worth reading."--Christopher H. Sterling, author of Stay Tuned: A Concise History of American Broadcasting and Sounds of Change: A History of FM Broadcasting in America"C. Francis Jenkins, Pioneer of Film and Television makes a substantial contribution to the literature on film and electronic communication. Godfrey's scholarship is exceptional and exhaustive. He left no stone unturned in compiling his resources to write this book."--Louise M. Benjamin, author of The NBC Advisory Council and Radio Programming, 1926-1945

• TitleContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologueChapter 1. Jenkins' Heritage and YouthChapter 2. Early Film ExperimentsChapter 3. A Lifetime of StruggleChapter 4. Jenkins' Motion PicturesChapter 5. Founding the Society of Motion Picture and Television EngineersChapter 6. Visionary EntrepreneurChapter 7. RadioVision: The Genesis and PromotionChapter 8. Radio Pictures: Going OperationalChapter 9. Television: Seeing by ElectricityChapter 10. The Eyes of RadioChapter 11. The Jenkins Television CorporationChapter 12. American VisionaryEpilogueAppendix A. U.S. Patents Issued to C. Francis JenkinsAppendix B. Selected Jenkins Patents Referenced in Modern Patent ApplicationsNotesA Selected Research BibliographyIndex

Donald G. Godfrey is a broadcast educator, professional broadcaster, and historian. His many works include Philo T. Farnsworth: The Father of Television and the Historical Dictionary of American Radio. Godfrey is a past president of the national Broadcast Education Association (BEA), a former editor of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, and served as president of the National Council of Communication Associations (CCA).

"Almost eighty years following Jenkins' death, the story of his life and many achievements is finally being told."--Robin Vierbuchen Sproul, Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief, ABC News   "With his biography of Francis Jenkins (indeed, the first ever), Don Godfrey again demonstrates his "chops" as a historian willing to do the archival digging necessary to rescue a story worth telling. As in his earlier study of Philo Farnsworth, Godfrey sorts out the sometimes controversial pieces of a career that--for a time--seemed to show the way to widespread use of television. Especially interesting is Jenkins' creative work in both film and television at their very dawning. This is a life well worth reading."--Christopher H. Sterling, author of Stay Tuned: A Concise History of American Broadcasting and Sounds of Change: A History of FM Broadcasting in America"C. Francis Jenkins, Pioneer of Film and Television makes a substantial contribution to the literature on film and electronic communication. Godfrey's scholarship is exceptional and exhaustive. He left no stone unturned in compiling his resources to write this book."--Louise M. Benjamin, author of The NBC Advisory Council and Radio Programming, 1926-1945

• TitleContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologueChapter 1. Jenkins' Heritage and YouthChapter 2. Early Film ExperimentsChapter 3. A Lifetime of StruggleChapter 4. Jenkins' Motion PicturesChapter 5. Founding the Society of Motion Picture and Television EngineersChapter 6. Visionary EntrepreneurChapter 7. RadioVision: The Genesis and PromotionChapter 8. Radio Pictures: Going OperationalChapter 9. Television: Seeing by ElectricityChapter 10. The Eyes of RadioChapter 11. The Jenkins Television CorporationChapter 12. American VisionaryEpilogueAppendix A. U.S. Patents Issued to C. Francis JenkinsAppendix B. Selected Jenkins Patents Referenced in Modern Patent ApplicationsNotesA Selected Research BibliographyIndex

Donald G. Godfrey is a broadcast educator, professional broadcaster, and historian. His many works include Philo T. Farnsworth: The Father of Television and the Historical Dictionary of American Radio. Godfrey is a past president of the national Broadcast Education Association (BEA), a former editor of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, and served as president of the National Council of Communication Associations (CCA).

"Almost eighty years following Jenkins' death, the story of his life and many achievements is finally being told."--Robin Vierbuchen Sproul, Vice President and Washington Bureau Chief, ABC News   "With his biography of Francis Jenkins (indeed, the first ever), Don Godfrey again demonstrates his "chops" as a historian willing to do the archival digging necessary to rescue a story worth telling. As in his earlier study of Philo Farnsworth, Godfrey sorts out the sometimes controversial pieces of a career that--for a time--seemed to show the way to widespread use of television. Especially interesting is Jenkins' creative work in both film and television at their very dawning. This is a life well worth reading."--Christopher H. Sterling, author of Stay Tuned: A Concise History of American Broadcasting and Sounds of Change: A History of FM Broadcasting in America"C. Francis Jenkins, Pioneer of Film and Television makes a substantial contribution to the literature on film and electronic communication. Godfrey's scholarship is exceptional and exhaustive. He left no stone unturned in compiling his resources to write this book."--Louise M. Benjamin, author of The NBC Advisory Council and Radio Programming, 1926-1945

• TitleContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsPrologueChapter 1. Jenkins' Heritage and YouthChapter 2. Early Film ExperimentsChapter 3. A Lifetime of StruggleChapter 4. Jenkins' Motion PicturesChapter 5. Founding the Society of Motion Picture and Television EngineersChapter 6. Visionary EntrepreneurChapter 7. RadioVision: The Genesis and PromotionChapter 8. Radio Pictures: Going OperationalChapter 9. Television: Seeing by ElectricityChapter 10. The Eyes of RadioChapter 11. The Jenkins Television CorporationChapter 12. American VisionaryEpilogueAppendix A. U.S. Patents Issued to C. Francis JenkinsAppendix B. Selected Jenkins Patents Referenced in Modern Patent ApplicationsNotesA Selected Research BibliographyIndex