UNEXPECTED SCENE.
TRAGEDY BY TELEVISION, WOMAN’S LEAP TO DEATH. NEW YORK, June 24. A mobile television transmitter, making shots at Radio City, picked up a scene of unexpected, tragedy when the cameraman trained the instrument on the body of a young woman who plunged from the eleventh storey of the Rockefeller Centre.
The engineers were startled to see a hurtling figure cross the screen and hear a scream from the crowds through the microphone.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 176, 25 June 1938, Page 11
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74UNEXPECTED SCENE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 176, 25 June 1938, Page 11
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