RUGBY TELEVISION

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22991, 19 March 1938, Page 23

RUGBY TELEVISION

INTERNATIONAL CONTEST Rugby football is to be televised for the first time on March 19, when viewers will see in their homes the whole match between Scotland and England at Twickenham, .says an Australian writer. Three cameras are to s he used, one on the north stand and the others stationed opposite the two 2.3-yard lines. Technical progress in several directions should make the pictures better than any yet transmitted from the open air. Probably , two of the new super-Emitron cameras, with greater sensitivity and depth of locus than existing types, will be available. Views of the whole field and also of sections in close-up will he shown on the screen. A.s it will only be possible to distinguish individual' players in the close-up shots. Captain H. B. T. Wakelam's commentary in the National programme will be synchronised with the pictures. Incidentally, this wedding of the ordinary sound with the vision programmes. lirst attempted in a recent "White Coons" broadcast, is an answer to those who object to expenditure on picture programmes which at present are only'seen by. comparatively few. Another coming . enterprise of the mobile squad, which is under the direction of Mr. Philip Dorte, will he a broadcast of the start of the Head of the Miver race from Mortlnke on March 2(5. This .will lie a rehearsal for the televising on the following Saturday of the finish of ihe Mont Race, rowed in the reverse direction.