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2 Trans-Atlantic
The BBC -NBC cooperation on the project dates to the Fall of
1958.
Under the new system, pictures from film are transmitted one at a time over the telephone cable and are re-assembled on the other side of the ocean. BBC has reported that half a minute of film can be transmitted in less than 50 minutes and can be reproduced on tele¬ vision as soon as the film has been developed about 20 minutes later.
The system transmits pictures at the rate of one frame every eight seconds — much faster than the rate of one picture every ten minutes required for sending photographs by previous methods of facsimile transmission. Although there is some loss of picture quality, the images are quite satisfactory.
The film of Queen Elizabeth will be rushed from London Airport to BBC studios, where it will be developed and processed for transmission over the trans-Atlantic cable. The new equipment reduces the signal required for picture transmission to a band sufficiently narrow to be carried on a telephone channel normally used for music.
In Montreal, the new equipment will be used to transpose the electronic signals into a duplicate film of the Queen. This film will then be telecast during the 15-minute program on Thursday.
The new system will also be used to keep British viewers informed of the Queen's tour through Canada.
Mr. Me Andrew said the British General Post Office, Canadian Overseas Telecommunications Corporation and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company cooperated with the BBC and NBC in making transAtlantic cable circuits available for the experiment.
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NBC-New York, 6/16/59