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IN the darkened quiet of your own living room, you and your family lean forward, intent upon a mirror which reflects the images of the Honeymooners, Grace and Eddie Albert. Their lips move — you see them — and as they do so the sound of their voices fills the room. You laugh as they wink at each other . . . The scene changes; you are watching King Edward's coronation or the Spanish revolution; a whirl of lights, and President Roosevelt is delivering his opening message to Congress. The smile you've had to imagine at his fireside talks is really there.
From an unimpeachable source, 1 know that television on a commercial scale will be undertaken in New York City during 1937. Already, such stars as Grace and Eddie Albert are broadcasting weekly programs which are both heard and seen by television experts stationed at various points within the radius reached by the television waves. Those waves aren't powerful enough yet to span the Atlantic, but by the time King Edward's coronation is held, television service will be available to one-quarter of the population of the British Isles. In Germany, people will be able to watch Hitler's face as he talks to them on a screen four times as large as any yet developed here.
Have you wondered, in the midst of all that has been said and printed on the subject of television, what a television set looks like? Now, if you will look at the picture accom
panying this article, you can see for yourself. Have you wondered what you would see if a set were installed in your home and a program tuned in? Have you wondered which of today's radio and movie stars would retain or increase their popularity in the new medium? Which Hollywood star is television's ideal? And have you wondered when the general public — meaning you, not reporters nor electrical engineers — will get a look at this newest mechanical marvel, and perhaps a chance to buy one?
Those questions, too, will be answered by the time you've finished reading. I want to give you a report, today's report, on the progress of the most fascinating forward step man has ever taken to abolish limitations of space and time.
Television on a non-commercial basis has been going on, as no doubt you know, since early last summer. That is, programs under constantly changing conditions have been broadcast, and have been watched, by a small group of experts who had been supplied with receivers.
In November, on the 62nd floor of Radio City's tallest building, I watched a forty-minute sight and sound program flashed simultaneously upon the screens of almost a dozen television sets, ranged along the wall. The program came from the top floor of the Empire State building, sixteen blocks downtown. {Continued on page 93)