The audio-visual handbook (1942)

Record Details:

Title:
The audio-visual handbook
Date:
1942
Publisher:
Chicago : Society for Visual Education, Inc.
Volume:
The audio-visual handbook
Leaf #:
000150
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion Picture Technology
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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132 The Audio-Visual Handbook present "Higher Fidelity" type of recording was developed. Properly reproduced, the Higher Fidelity record of today will give satisfactory reproduction of frequencies from approximately 60 to 8500 cycles. Photo Courtesy RCA Victor A Recording Session in the Early Days The best transcriptions have a range of 30 to 10,000 cycles, but very few phonographs will reproduce that range. Probable further developments in recording and reproduction will increase the normal range to cover even higher frequencies. Phonograph Records in Schools So far as is known, the first phonograph record was used in a classroom for instructional purposes in 1909, in the public schools of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is a matter of record that the first important move toward utilization of the phonograph record among schools on a national scale was on April 1, 1911. At that time, the Victor Talking Machine Company brought to Camden, New Jersey, an enterprising music supervisor from the Milwaukee City Schools. This enthusiastic young woman, Frances Elliott Clark, the first teacher to use phonograph