RADIO PICTURES.
SUCCESSFUL BROADCAST TESTS CHEAT FUTURE FOR FULLOGKAUH. United Proas Assn, by El. Tel. Couvrlxni (Australian Press Assn.) LONDON. Oct. 30. Two pictures, the-first of the King, and the second a cartoonist’s line drawing, were successfully broadcast bv the British Broadcasting Corporation and received by the fullogr system. Each • occupied four minutes in the process of transmission and reception. It is a far cry to television which requires moving pictures at the rate of 16 per second, the .speed of the cinema, but experts arc entirely satisfied and express the opinion that there is a great future for the fullograph. It is a small box costing 20 guineas. It has a revolving cylinder over which travels a length of sensitised paper. A platinum-tipped needle traverses the paper until, line by line, dot by dot, the picture lias been completed, and can be torn off. rho experiment produced a remarkable likeness of the King, resembling an ordinary sepia, photograph, 4fm by ‘iiini It is expected that machines will be turned out in quantities _ in November, considerably reducing their cost! /
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10732, 1 November 1928, Page 6
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179RADIO PICTURES. Gisborne Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 10732, 1 November 1928, Page 6
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