PICTURES BY RADIO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20324, 3 August 1929, Page 17

PICTURES BY RADIO.

BROADCASTING PROPOSAL.

THE FULTOGRAPH PROCESS

MAKING " STILL " PICTURES

The chairman of directors of the Ausualinn Broadcasting Company, Mr. Stuart F. Doyle, has announced that the company hoped very shortly to introduce radio picture reproduction, by arrangement with Amalgamated Wireless (Aust.), Limited, artd by means of the Fultograph process which, it was hoped, would bo in op oration within four weeks of the opening of 3LO and 2BL.

"By means of this process," Mr. Doyle said, "it will bo possiblo for pictures to lie reproduced in receiving sets which have attached to them a small wireless

apparatus." Tho system to bo used will be tho same as that adopted by tho British Broadcasting Corporation for the daily transmission of pictures from 2LO, London. Each evening two or threo "still" pictures are transmitted by 2LO. Tho receiving apparatus takes tho place of the loud speaker. Its cost iu Britain is from £25 to £3O.

A sheet of specially prepared paper, provided with tho receiving apparatus, is folded around a' revolving metal cylinder, A stylus pen, similar to that used for marking barometer readings, operated by electric impulses transmitted from the radio station, makes markings on tho paper. In a short timo tho picture takes shape, and when finished it is a complete and permanent photograph. Motion pictures have not yet been transmitted on a commercial basis, but experiments ale being made by the inventors, and by radio engineers, with a view to perfecting tho apparatus for the transmission of motion pictures from the radio studio and for their reception in tho homes of listeners.