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...This Is London (Fox). When Will Rogers is performing as an impediment in the insipid romance of his supposed son and a pretty English girl, and when, with his screen wife, he is giving a portrait of domestic felicity among the middleaged, his efforts to be engaging in a homely, honest way are strangely and uncharacteristically saccharine. Owen Davis is said to have written the dialog for this comedy, but most of its broadsides sound as if they had originated with Rogers himself. In a passport bureau: "No, I haven't got any witnesses to my birth...
...reel moving picture which gives a fairly complete account of the entire development of the state of Massachusetts, and in a manner certainly more graphic than would be a series of lectures on the same subject. Will the college professor of the future be obliged to appear on the screen as well as the lecture platform? It is hard to say, but were such a thing to happen, the present generation of students would have even more splendid opportunities than their fathers of saying. "Things were different...
...radio microphone) controlled by three movable arms which are actuated by the direction-finders. Thus the relative position of "eye" to model airport is always the position of the plane over the actual airport. By television, the view of the model airport is transmitted to a small screen in the pilot's cockpit. The mechanical eye registers itself on the screen as a moving speck. That speck, the pilot knows, represents his plane, which he may guide safely over trees, fences, hangars, just as they appear on the screen. Elaborate though the scheme sounded, skeptics forbore scoffing, recalling Inventor...
Truth was that one member was in General Electric laboratories, the other in Proctor's Theatre. On a screen six feet by seven feet the audience saw and heard both members of the team performing their act by telephone and television...
Significance of the occasion was the size of the screen. It was the first demonstration of life-size television. After three years of work Dr. Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson, G. E. researcher, had developed his images from postage stamp size to a scale where the theatre owners deemed it suitable for inclusion in their regular show program...