Heinl radio business letter (Jan-June 1939)

Record Details:

Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

5/2/39 at the microphones, which were linked with more than 500 sta¬ tions here and abroad. •'Burke Crotty, producer in charge of the mobile units, said that much had been learned from the telecast. He confessed that the performance was far from perfect but nevertheless highly successful, considering the fact that it was the first attempt of American radio men to telecast such a vast outdoor program. "British radio officials who witnessed the scene were amazed at what they called 'the nerve* of the Americans in having only one camera on the scene. They said they would have used at least three or four cameras for fading in scenes from differ¬ ent angles to gain variety. Then, too, they wondered what would happen if the electric eye burned out at the crucial moment. The American engineer said, 'That's not our luck, but should the optic go blind then we are licked. ' "The main criticism of television viewers on the Fair Grounds and at Radio City was that the camera was too far away from the speakers, causing the images to be too small. They also complained of the camera man's remaining in the same spot for the entire show. It was explained, however, that this could be overcome only by the use of additional cameras, since the Secret Service would not permit the camera man to roam around and get the lens as close to the President as the radio microphones are arrayed. "Crowds of the Fair watched the ceremonies on twelve television receivers on exhibit at the Radio Corporation of America Building. They saw the scenes as they were flashed eight miles to the Empire State Building and back again to Flushing on ultra-short waves. The screens were nine by twelve inches. The images traveled on 45.25 megacycles and the affiliated sound on 49.75 megacycles. " XXXXXXXX BRITISH TELEVISION OFFICIAL INVADES U.S. MARKET Ian C. Javal, Commercial Director of Baird Television, Ltd. , and British expert, arrived Friday from London on the ^unard White Star liner "Aquitania" with a staff of engineers from the Baird factory and experimental laboratories at Sydenham, England. He said that he had brought with him $150,000 worth of theatre-television equipment, cameras and the latest development in home sets. Mr. Javal said that television was "born in England three years ago", and that now there are "telecasts" which are received in British homes four hours a day. He said that his company wished to show America what, in his opinion, is the most advanced television work, and this week he will demonstrate, in collaboration with the GaumontBritish Corporation, the effectiveness of television for theatres. He subsequently demonstrated reception of the World's Fair television broadcast before a private audience, using a Baird "Catho visor" , cathode ray type of receiver. XXXXXXXX 10