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1949 THEATER TELEVISION 323
FCC in 1944 and 1945, Paul J. Larsen on behalf of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers appeared before the FCC and requested the allocation of frequencies to theater television.
At the termination of hostilities, Paramount Pictures, Inc., under the direction of Paul Raibourn, directed its research to the development of the intermediate-film method of theater television, which culminated on April 14, 1948, in the surprise public exhibition of a 15minute televised newsreel at the Paramount Theater in New York. The television pictures were transmitted via a 7000-megacycle microwave relay from the Navy YMCA, Brooklyn, to the top of the Daily News Building on East 42 Street, thence to the Paramount Building at Broadway and 43 Street, and from there down a coaxial cable to the receiving and film-making equipment. The pictures were filmed on regular 35-mm film and, because of the new rapid film-developing process, reached the 18 by 24-foot screen 66 seconds after the scenes were shot. On June 25, 1948, the same process was employed in a showing of the Louis-Walcott prize fight on the screen of the Paramount Theater, and since that date similar exhibitions have been held in the Paramount Theater on an almost weekly basis.
Meanwhile, RCA Laboratories, Inc., collaborating with 20th Century-Fox Film Corporation and Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., proceeded with the development of the direct-projection system of theater television. In July, 1947, Earl I. Sponable, technical director of 20th Century-Fox, and Colonel Nathan Levinson of Warner Brothers, signed research and development agreements with RCA for I joint participation in the development of this system. The three I organizations sponsored a private showing of theater-size television (15 by 20-foot), at Warner's Burbank Studio in May, 1948, during I the National Association of Broadcasters' Convention, and on June I 25, 1948, history was made by the public showing in the Fox-Philadelphia Theater of instantaneous television pictures of the LouisWalcott prize fight using an intercity relay from New York to Philadelphia. The program was picked up at the Yankee Stadium New York, and relayed by microwave relays successively to WNBT, Empire State Building, New York City, WPTZ, Wyndmoor, PennI sylvania, and the Fox-Philadelphia Theater, a total distance of about 100 miles. From the roof of the theater the program was run to the 1 receiving and projecting equipment by coaxial cable. The reactions , of the audience in the 2400-seat theater were described as highly enj thusiastic. Recently, on April 4, 1949, the RCA-Fox-Warner system