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A COMPLETE MEANS OF INSTANTANEOUS PARTICIPATION IN SIGHT AND SOUND
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From the lol'ly height <>f 650 feet above sea level, the Du Mont television station W2XWV antenna dominates the metropolitan New York area with its powerful video and audio signals. The station and studios are located on the top floor of the 42-story skyscraper at 515 Madison Avenue. The steel tower is topped by a mast that can be raised and lowered down to the platform atop the tower, for maintenance of the antenna proper.
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Fluorescent Lighting for Television Studios
Television performers need no longer dread the ordeal of powerful lights, with their glare and heat, heretofore accompanying the performance before the television studio camera. By going over to fluorescent illumination. Du Mont engineers have reduced glare, and particularly heat, to a minimum, while providing a more desired diffused lighting for satisftctory television images.
In place of powerful incandescent lamp bulbs of the spotlight type heretofore favored for television studio pickup work, 24 fluorescent lamp tubes have been installed, totalling 960 watts, in the New York television station. This wattage is but a small fraction of the wattage heretofore required. Also, the fluorescent lamps run quite cool. The tubes are mounted in horizontal rows on heavy framework, in two banks, placed on either side of the television camera facing the performers. Operating on threephase current, these fluorescent lamps indicate a high power factor. The total effect is virtually that of six-phase operation. Meanwhile, otherwise objectionable flicker of individual fluorescent lamps is cancelled out, and a perfectly smooth, steady, ideal flat illumination of virtual daylight quality is obtained. For dramatic or modeling effects, one or more baby spots are added to the general fluorescent lighting.
The fluorescent lamp installation is but one of the several unique features to be found in the Du Mont television studios of Station W2XWV on the 42nd floor of 515 Madison Avenue, where engineers are completing and testing the equipment in anticipation of early video broadcasting on a scheduled and commercial-license basis.
S.M.P.E. Honors Late Herman A. De Vry
By unanimous decision the members of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, while in executive session during recent convention in New York City, approved the proposal of the Society's Board of Governors that the name of Herman A. DeVry be added to the Society's Honor Roll. This Honor Roll, international in scope, was established in 1931 for the purpose of perpetuating the names of distinguished pioneers who are now deceased.
In accordance with the practice of this Society, Mr. DeVry's name will be the tenth name to be included in the list of distinguished pioneers of the motion picture industry as printed each month on the back cover of the Society's monthly Journal.