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ylnd in the meantime . . . atL ambitious group of Western amateurs are making great strides in helping Television "over the hump/'
by Charles S. Lester
BRIMFUL of energy, scientific facts and ideas, several enthusiastic young Californians are busily engaged in delving into the unfathomed mysteries of television.
Western newspapers are full of the subject of television — prophecies and opinions are flaunted before the public as facts and truths. But these young fellows, with shirt-sleeves rolled up and brows furrowed with serious enthusiasm and intent of purpose, are plugging away to get at the bottom of the matter, and do their bit to bring television "over the hump."
About a year ago a group of students began attending a special class, in television at the University of California at Los Angeles. At the end of the course, the instructor told them that he had brought them to the end of the road, and they knew now what had already been accomplished in television: the rest was up to them.
"Television is only in its infancy," he said, "and at present is confronted with a number of obstacles that the best scientists are striving to overcome. You men have been taught what has been done, what must be done — now go out and do it!"
They took the challenge and started out to look for a place to set up a laboratory for their work. The last few meetings of the television class had been held in the Warner-Kelton. a fashionable Hollywood hotel, and the manager. Dr. Warner, had taken considerable interest in the boys and their work. When they asked if he would let them build a little experimentation "lab" on the roof of the hotel. Dr. Warner offered to build them a complete laboratory in tu' rear grounds of the hotel, whcr? t'e swimming pool, ^olf course. £."rnnasium. and theater arc located.
In these beautiful surroundings, with nothing much to go on but determination and confidence, they began. Their equipment grew, and experimentation went merrily on, building, testing, tearing down, and building up again.
They organized themselves as a club, called it the California Television Society, and limited the membership to 18 members. Among their members are many noted men in the radio, motion picture, television and sound fields.
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And now they have established themselves as the only body of amateur television experimentalists in the West. Their findings have proved valuable to other experimenters all over the country. Older authorities in the East consider them fellow associates, and accept suggestions and borrow ideas from them.
In the laboratory at the WarnerKelton Hotel, a complete television apparatus has been set up. Working principally with silhouettes and (Continued on Page 42)
Above, a few of the members of the Society, the only one of its kind in the West. Left. scanning disc and flying spot. Below, Dr. Gilbert Lee, scientist, at work on a television experiment.