Word: rca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stravinsky: Danses Concertantes (RCA Victor Chamber Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky conducting; Victor, 5 sides). Brittle and exciting, this is one of the best of Stravinsky's later works (1942), well performed. Recording: good...
Ultrafax, by RCA out of Eastman Kodak Co., is a hybrid variety of facsimile transmission. It combines features of both television and photography. The material to be sent (text, writing, pictures, diagrams) must first be photographed on a strip of movie film. Using a kind of modified television technique, the film is "scanned" by a "flying spot" of light. At the receiving station another flying spot reproduces the material on another strip of film. When Ultrafax is really rolling, said Sarnoff, it can transmit 1,000,000 words a minute...
Sarnoff did not say very much about just how long it takes to prepare the film for Ultrafax to transmit. It must have been a weary business to photograph Gone With the Wind, page by page.* Present methods of putting printed matter on film (and RCA mentioned no improvement) are still slow, compared with the speed Ultrafax can boast in transmission...
...studio on the third floor of Manhattan's RCA Building, the Candid Microphone show had just gone off the air. The boys in the studio orchestra slowly began to pack up their instruments before heading for home or a Sixth Avenue bar. One man, a short, slender trumpeter with a tiny mustache, was in a hurry. Robert Leo Hackett stowed away his shining horn, flung out a hurried good night and left. Twenty minutes later he slipped into Nick's famed Greenwich Village jazz-and-gin mill, and stepped to the leader's place on the stand...
...Madrid, 2,000 teleficionados paid 15 pesetas ($1.40) a head to see a special RCA exhibition: Spain's first telecast of a bull fight. When the image blurred at the big moment, a few yelled "estafa" (swindle) and got their money back...