From 1961, a commercial for the RCA “Wireless Wizard”. Not the first wireless remote, that title goes to the Zenith Flash-matic in 1955. Remote controls are an interesting example of fairly rapid transition of technology from experimental into mass production. The above commercial seems rather over the top to modern sensibilities, but the development of a mass market for electronics gave a strong peace time impetus to technological development. My father initially denounced remote controls as toys for lazy rich people. When we got one after prices came down and the technology was perfected, it was practically impossible to pry it from his hands! Various revolutions during my lifetime have seized public attention, but the continuous technological revolutions of the last six decades probably will prove the most long lasting.
Divine intervention for the stuff that ought not be viewed by man nor beast.
I had no idea remote controls came out that long ago. I’m surprised the device in her hands looks so small. When did color tv come out ? Before or after remote controls ? I was born in the early sixties and we still had black and white tv.