This historic first TV broadcast was seen by only a few hundred people who had access to the new television. It is a variety show of sorts, similar to the show preceding the feature film in cinemas of the 1930s. There are newsreel items, including Haile Selassie of Ethiopia pleading before the League of Nations for aid to repel the invading Italian forces of Mussolini. There are entertainment segments to appeal to women, such as the female dancers performing a water lily dance on the lawn outdoors (no high-kicking Rockettes) as well as a fashion show indoors of the latest in fashions (short ermine coats are in, as are hostess gowns). There is the obligatory lineup of important white males who are overseeing this "advancement in education and entertainment", and there are comic bits as well, none funnier than the solemn moderators trying to sound as suave as the radio professionals.