Trapped By Television 1936 Screenplay by Lee Loeb and Harold Buchman, directed by Del Lord. Del directed over 200 films, many of them shorts for Mack Sennett. Del's credited with developing the unique comic style of the Three Stooges, according to his Wikipedia page.
A silly comedy involving a new TV system. Lyle Talbot is the inventor, Nat Pendleton is a bill collector assigned to collect from Lyle. He visits Lyle and goes into business with him even though neither of them has the cash to make the parts needed for the system. Nat gets Lyle a job as a bill collector to help raise funds.
Mary Astor is his first assignment and he winds up talking her into raising money for him. She does and the system is up and running. They get a demo from a Radio Network looking to get into TV. That would have gone well but there's sabotage in the works.
There's more story and a bit of romance before we get to the end. It's a bit slow but there are some gags. I thought it was worth a look once I was done.
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