10 Facts About Philco Predicta

Philco Predicta is a black and white television chassis style, which was made in several cabinet models with 17” or 21” screens by the American company Philco from 1958 to 1960.

The Philco Predicta was marketed as the world's first swivel screen television, and had an iconic design by Catherine Winkler with the picture tube separated from the rest of the cabinet.

The Philco Predicta had a thinner picture tube than many other televisions at the time, which led it to be marketed as the more futuristic television set.

Model Philco Predicta Tandem had the fully detached picture tube and the flat twenty five foot long umbilical cable, which allowed the controls and speaker for the set to be next to the viewer, with the screen up to twenty five feet away.

Philco Predicta had Directa, its short lived remote series in 1959 before being bought by the Ford Motor Company in December 1961.

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The Predicta was announced to the industry in the summer of 1958 with the public getting its first look on the edition of 1959 of Miss America, which was sponsored by Philco.

Shortly after the Philco Predicta was announced, the reliability was called into question by several trade and consumer publications.

Philco produced the Predicta the following year but unfortunately, as it was phasing in its next chassis iteration the Cool Chassis they went bankrupt.

The Predicta was credited as one speculated cause of Philco's bankruptcy.

Toy Story 2 featured a miniature replica of the Philco Predicta which was based on one owned by John Lasseter, who directed the film.