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...variations in light and shade, changed into electrical impulses, traveled to Manhattan over the wires. There the moving picture was reassembled. On a small screen (2 x 2½ in.) the speaker's face and movements appeared distinct and clear; on a large one they were distorted badly. Later the watchers in Manhattan saw vaudeville acts broadcast from the A. T. & T. Co. studio at Whippany, N. Y., 40 miles away...
Method: To obtain satisfactory television on a large screen, 300,000 optical fragments must be transmitted and received each second. The best speed of Inventor Baird of London has been 30,000 to the second. By the new Bell system, a rate of 45,000 to a second is maintained. In the new system, as in Inventor Baird's, the object to be transmitted is divided up into many parts by beams of light flowing through a revolving disc. The variations of light and shade on the face are changed into variations of electrical current by three large photo...
...that romance is a thing of the past, but the truth is that as long as there are men and women in the world there will be romance. ... In these days of commonplace materialism we need only go to the movies to find it in full sway on the screen and in the audience...
...ephemeral press notices of the past month materialized yesterday with the arrival in the Yard of J. L. Johnston, of the studio staff. In order to give every student who forsees for himself a future on the silver screen, every opportunity to sell his personality, ability, and appearance to the representatives of America's second greatest industry, the tests at Harvard will be held on Tuesday, April 26, instead of Saturday, April 23, as previously announced...
...Dreyfus case purported to be the trial of an army officer indicted for high treason; but a wave of anti-Semitism was then sweeping France, and the charge of treason served as but a thin screen behind which was fought another race and religious battle. Sacco and Vanzetti, seven years ago, were nominally tried for the murder of a paymaster and his guard; but a wave of reaction against radical notions of all kinds was at the time sweeping this country, and economic doctrines played an important part in the evidence submitted to a jury impanelled...