1958 The village that made televisionDedina, ktorá vyrábala televízory

In the 1950s the state built an electronics works at Nižná as part of the Tesla group, and in 1958 the first black-and-white television set came off the line — the model was called Mánes. Colour production followed in 1975. The sets were sold across Czechoslovakia and beyond it under the brand name Orava, and picture tubes were made here as well. The plant hired from every village in the upper valley, and with it came blocks of flats, schools and shops that a village of nine hundred people would never have built for itself. This is what planned industrialisation actually looked like: a factory decided on in an office, and a whole community rearranged around it.V päťdesiatych rokoch postavil štát v Nižnej závod na elektroniku ako súčasť koncernu Tesla a v roku 1958 zišiel z linky prvý čiernobiely televízor — model sa volal Mánes. Farebná výroba nasledovala v roku 1975. Prijímače sa predávali po celom Československu aj za jeho hranicami pod značkou Orava a vyrábali sa tu aj obrazovky. Závod naberal ľudí z každej dediny hornej doliny a s ním prišli paneláky, školy a obchody, aké by si deväťstočlenná dedina sama nikdy nepostavila. Takto vyzerala plánovaná industrializácia v praxi: fabrika sa rozhodla v kancelárii a celá obec sa preskupila okolo nej.