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The B.B.C.'s Alexandra Palace, television station now broadcasts full scale programmes. Here a radio correspondent, the first person to "look in" to America, describes the work of the |pioneers and the developments which have

produced present-day practicability.

E have heard and now we seel Science has performed an- other miracle and given the world radio. eyes 'as well as radio cars. The other is TRY THEM ow throbbing not only with dots and dashes, fat stock prices and entertainment, but- with faces, scenes and objects. For television has arrived.. I say "arrived" with some reserve; for it is only in its in- fancy-of

experimental nature. Programmes are, how- ever, being broadcast every day, and the few persons near Lon- don who have paid £00. or 30 for A suitable receiver aro "looking-in " to whatever is televised from tho Alexandra Palace.

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MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1937,

ATLANTIC AIR

SERVICE

Despite formidable difficulties,

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Television Js not new In Britain. Moving pictures, very crude and small when compared with present re- sults, were tele-

vised by the

B.B.C, as far back

ns 1930. But there is still a large number of per- sons who are very vague about tele- vision and what It can do at Its présent stage of develop- ment,

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probably

more importance

is what it cannot

there seems every prospect of do, for lurking in experimental aviation

services many

vision ia 0 Peeping Tom with X-ray eyes, which

of their minds is a sus- on the North Atlantic route be- pieton that tele- ing put into operation by the end of the present year. Sir Philip Sassoon drew attention to

can' pierco the some of the many problems in-

walls of one's volved when introducing the Air bathroom, or en- Estimates in the House of Com. able wives to keep an eye on bus- mong last week. The ex-bands "detained at the office" perimental flights are likely to be high-speed land machines, One of the reasons for the pos- and at all the paraphernalia neces- sible adoption of land planes on sary to broadcast images of scenes the crossing is to be found in the and persons over a mero 30 miles dificulties of operating a flying would at once dispel all doubts haat service which would have that television will ever be a a terminus in Canada or New-menate to one's private life.

Seeing is believing, and it la cer-

One glance at the massive and

complicated apparatus at the

Alexandra Park television station

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During the few days that experi- mental vision programmes have been broadcast, I have seen a golf lesson, a display of new cars (when the bonnets wore lifted, the rotat

ing fan was clearly visible), model airplanes flying in the open, ballet and variety turns in the studio.

are ice-bound in winter, or, far more satisfying than they are not frozen over, the merely hearing the alleged sounds cold is often so intense that spray__made_during_a flying-. boat's manoeuvres on the water would freeze over the machine. According to the aviation car respondent of a London journal, in the coming experiments Bri. tain will try out more than one operational method, and it is possible that a regular service News Alms have also been telo- may not have to await the de- vised with good results, and per- velopment of a new type of air-fectly synchronised sound accom- craft, say, a 60-ton flying-boat. panies the vision. Experiments will be made by two of the new Empire flying boats which have been specially tanked for long-range work, and by the De Havilland "Albatross" four-engined land aeroplane, a

And all this has been made pos- sible by an inherent failing of the

was

The camera with which a model aeroplane meeting was recently televised.

TELEVISIONARY

-Douglas Walters with in-early- apparatus, The tuning was done behind his back-by himself!

human eyet

Neither televialori nor cinematography would be feasible in their present forms 11 it were not for an optical pecu- ilarity known as Persistence of VISION.

Although the eye can discern ob- jects at amazing distances and take in a wide scene in a split- second, it cannot discriminate bo- tween a series of consecutivo move- ments much faster than 12-13 a -second.

At the Alexandra Palace there are two distinct television trans- mitters on trial-each developed and installed by rival companies... and each operating in a different manner. One of these employs 25- and the other 50 separate pictures a second,

The development of this new science, involving immense optical and electrical problems, has been comparatively rapid, although from the Arst shadowgraphs, which provided a jerky silhouette

by DOUGLAS WALTERS

of moving images. to the present high definition pletures with as good detall дя any home clne- matograph, It has been an uphill path.

I well remain- ber seeing in, my own home the Anlah of the Derby in

1039, Results with the old low definition systont ware 'ndmittedly crude, but I could easily distinguish the horses and a policeman who #rossed the course after the race. That spectacle provided a great thrill for the excited group of per Bons who crowded round my ex- perimental apparatus, with its re- volving aluminium disè, its fucker- ing orange neon light and targe lenses to magnify the size of the far too small picture.

And I had a great thrill when, in September, 1930, I picked up a tele- vision programme direct from New York on entirely experimental ap- paratus.

This was the first time that any- one in America had been seen in England by television.

The detail and clarity of present- day television bears no resem- blance to the old system, and there is no reason why fortunate owners of television receivers should not · obtain a far better view of the Coronation procession next year than many of the thousands who · will have paid fabulous prices for route seats,

But there is not a Coronation, a Derby or a big fight every day. Will television be as much a part

type embodying several THOUGHTS ABOUT

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markable but at present secret

We have stopped thinking about the ternational disease.

of the

WAR

pioneer Atlantic flights, it has to last war because we are too busy eloquence, one has difficulty in consists in their doing so and once i be borne in mind that more have think Com There are no writ- discovering the

ers that

much

und

features. This new type mayTAVERYONE remembers the boom in she is therefore content to be allowed The wildest extravagances of Nazi on a greater scale repeat the war books that took place a few to possess in tranquillity the spalls doctrine, which is a means to an end, British design triumph won by years ago. It was surprising to those already in her grasp.

not a philosophy, are no doubt de- the "Comet" of England-Mel-who had belleved that old and young This makes our plea that British, signed for consumption in the most bourne race fame. The Alba alike held that the sooner the Great armaments are purely defensive seem numerous, that is the stupidest,

War was forgotten, the better for all. more sincere than like protestations market. tross" is a 14-seater of a cruising

To-day there is again boom .ព

in from some other quarters.

They do not prove that man for speed probably exceeding 200 war books, but this time they are

man the Germans have suddenly gone mp.h., and a range of some books about future warfare. It is a WAR, as the author sees it, is the any madder than ourselves, for thern 8,000 miles. In connection with significant, perhaps ominous, change. feverish stage of a persistent in- is no nonsense you cannot get peoplo to profess if you can once convince Though he argues with some skill them that the foundation of society next.

and been made in November, De- In

purport of it all, they do so that is just what it doce cember, January, February, or literary cudgellera are all ranged on ticular.

to glorify war; the The discourse leads nowhere in par-

become. for sa

long as it lasts. The

totalitarian States are describ- March, and with only three ex- the other side. This country is one

ન હતું. The book, Mr. Plumb warns us, willed as those which are organised on a ceptions all the successful flights of the most peace-minded in Europe. be a matter of arguments rather than war footing in time of

of nominal peace. were made in the May to Sep. If it be again dragged into a dis- of facts. Much better would it have In time of war all the States become tember period. This is evidence astrous conflict, that will be very been to malte his story an amalgama Russia," Mr. Plumb says, "are simply

totalitarian. "Germany,

Italy, of the existence of a very diffi-

against its will.

tion of arguments and facts. The one move ahead of ourselves in True, all the nations say that of two do not usually go ill together. cult season of the year. On the themselves. But in some cases the For all our boasts of modernity, we realising this and in having applicu west to east direct, crossing there disavowal is more convincing than in are still, in the author's eyes, must in any case apply to action."

to preparation the principles which have been 22 successes and 13 others,

Victorian, failures, but on the east to west

The general excitement about this is less than fair to the Govern- or that "record," the desire to save THE author does not exactly súg- crossing, with the same number Im

Ament and people of this country, time at all costs without any nollon gest that we should stop the ex- of failures, there have been only therefore, to write of them as if they of games and especially the profes- pansion of the Air Force, but he op- to look it as a hopeless 10 successes. This illustrates were free agents in the matter. The ionsalism of amateurs, the slavery enterprise.on 11 65 2 the special difficulty of the cast pace is set for us on the Continent, of the machine, the proliferation of We can but follow where others lead, books, most of our clothes, our all tes

This Is because we cannot expect to west Journey. These reali-even though the whole business is de successful efforts to reduce the in- to infilet as much damage on ties, however, only serve to tesinble to us.

telligence to the level

of a ling enemy country as that country's alr illuminate the confidence, due to:

belief That is where writers like Mr. cabinet,ture and

us in the In "democracy" force could Inalet upon the Justice

tice of the same space of time. and "culture" new aircraft designs and in Charles Plumb, whose Paradiso Re-

Jected (Alexander MacLchose) is de- English legal system and what we comparison, the most vulnerable in "As a target this country is beyond proved engines, with which the scribed as "A Study in War and read in the newspaperstore alon, the world." Are we, then, to pit coming experiments will be Socicly To-day," make their chie

oh minor evidences of Inner confusion, a

for astonishment at the progress. We are in this calamitous contest bio-Yonken if dimeult to find an appetite the author, thinks that armaments not faced. There is abundant reason mistake, They seem to assume that mental indigestion, which naturally down and wait for destruction?

So far as this country is concerned, In the technique of flying and of aise wo like it. They are much for the real pleasures of living when only are unable to prevent wars, buli

facile in seeing the ther they come our way. LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. the flying machine which has follow as point of view than that of

been made since Alcock and their own country,

WAR, we are told, is not a disense Whitten Brown-mado the first Mr. Plumb, It is true, admits that so much as the symptom of a direct North Atlantic crossing Brain has no desire for further ad- disease. The Infiction of physical MR.

ventures, but that is because she has violence is a by-product of the com- by air only 18 years ago,"

bitten off more than she can chew; petitive spirit,

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of our daily lives as the radio? An ordinary radio.set does not Interfere with, the normal occupa- tion of the home. One can read, write, talk, knit oven go to sleep-to the sound from a loud speaker, But with television it is necessary to rivet one's attention to the screen, and it is for more comfortable to have the rooni in durkness.

The B.B.C. television producers will have to provide far more novelty, variety, and interest In their programmes. Films are probably the enslest material to televise, and they will undoubtedly, figura prominently in forthcom- Ing programmes, but it is doubtful whether the B.B.C. will televise full-length films.

It would be very costly to pue- chase full-length Bims that have not been seen before in public- and there is not such a large sum available for spending on the early programmes. Morcover, I doubt whether anyone would care to follow a film lasting, say, an hour and a lialt-on-the-small-size of screen at present used.

The day is bound to come when -television images will be projected on to a screen, or wall, and although 'I find the present size, averaging about nine by seven inches, sufficiently large. to be of real entertainment value, there -isʻno-doubt-that-plotures several-feet

square would be far better.

Television has opened up, an en- tirely new field for experiments in studio, technique, presentation and make-up. With erdinary sound broadcasting, artists are able to read their parts from script. They can move about the studio, and ono person can fill severni rdles. But all this ta impossible with television, where every movement is visible.

For television, special make-up ex- perts doub the faces of artists, with cosmetics-chiefly a de blue pigment, which experience has shown to bó the best for the television "eye."- But each of the two systems of trans- mission in use at Alexandra Palace requires its own special form of make-

up.

Every home television receiver must be adjusted when the transmissions '-change from one system to another; this is usually accomplished by simply manipulating a small switch, but the fact remains that the use of two dif. ferent systems introduces numerous complications.

A logical conclusion to be drawn -from-present-tendencles-in-television research is that eventually it will be possible to project. “high-definition images on to a screen comparable-l size with a cinema screen, and it is possible that” the vision programmes will be shown at cinemas equipped with thơ necessary apparatus At present · the B.B.C. hold the copyright of all matier broadcast, but some arrange- ments with regard to television pro- grammes la inevitable. - (OR MAN

Unlike ordinary sound programmes, the electric television currents cannot be sent over ordinary telephone wires, but a specially designed cable sullable for vision signals has been laid bo- tween Birmingham and London, and This will soon be extended to Man- chester, which indicates the likelihood of the next televisiori station being erected near one of these towna..

Because the effective range of the wave-lengths around seven metres used for television is not more than about 40 miles, and considerably less than this when hills or steel buildings latervenc, to provido a vision service for the more. densely populated areas In the country it will be necessary to erect a large number of stalions;⠀

The cost of such a scheme would be prohiblavo. By the end of this year. the Alexandra Palace station will have cost the 3.0, £160.000, and theraïare no television licences to provide addi- tional revenue, mirall g

We have heard, and now we scel British television leads the world.

Today's Thought- ANYBODY can, start some-

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