Schlamme-ing!

This is a film site, so we try not to wax lyrical about the glories of television programmes, but we have to make an exception for the televisual genius which is The West Wing, a drama with the best characters, writing and direction you'll find anywhere, big screen or little. Rejoice then, as the creative masterminds behind the series, Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme, re-team to make The Farnsworth Invention, a film about the inventor of television. The story is set in the late 1920s, when Philo Farnsworth, a 22-year-old genius from Utah, first captured moving images in a box. This led to a skirmish with Vladimir Zworykin, who had copyrighted the technology years before despite not being able to make it work. As if that wasn't enough, Farnsworth's employer at the time was David Sarnoff, head of RCA radio, who set about stealing the glory