Word: telecast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Television hopes to do for art what radio has done for music: bring masterpieces to millions who could not otherwise enjoy them. Last week, with a rush of appropriate sentiments, the first U. S. art telecast took place in Manhattan. Haled before an NBC "ike" was Artist Charles Sheeler, whose retrospective show had just opened at the Museum of Modern Art. Said he: "It may even be that television has brought us to the threshold of another Renaissance in the visual arts." Spectators were more skeptical, thought the flickering, televised images of Artist Sheeler's paintings looked like magic...
...bike-race telecast was transmitted via a telephone exchange near the Garden, over a regular telephone connection to the studios in Radio City. Not quite as simple as telephoning the grocer, telephoning television requires an amplifier to boost the signal along, and a device called an equalizer to keep the multiple frequencies in step at the receiving point in the studio. Already being experimented with in England, telephone wire's aptitude for television led some optimistic engineers last week to envision the possibility for a U. S. television network within a year...
...growing list of achievements. Conducting outdoor television tests in Rockefeller Center's Plaza, NBC's Iconoscope Cameraman Ross Plaisted was shifting his camera's focus when he caught the girl's falling body at the sixth floor, followed it to the ground. The telecast was not on the air but NBC engineers were watching the cabled tests in an RCA Building control room. While the camera was turning, the engineers were concerned with other parts of their reception apparatus. Death for the first time flashed across a television screen. But no one saw the passing picture...
...advertised American Television Corp. receiving sets. Davega City Radio Inc., retail specialists in radios and sporting goods, jumped on the band wagon, making a deal with Allen B. DuMont Laborato^ ries, Inc. for exhibition and sale of DuMont sets. Demonstrations were planned to pick up the NBC experimental evening telecast from the Empire State tower. What often happens to best-laid plans began to happen fast...
...licenses may be idle during long periods. On May 10, before an invited audience, A. T. C. sets had their first public workout. NBC, whose parent company will presumably be making and selling receiving sets as soon as it feels it is commercially practicable, has since added to its telecast this screened announcement: These television transmissions are experimental and should not be regarded as establishing a Television Service. Any revision of the tentative standards of transmission or changes to apparatus will necessitate discontinuance of schedules. Last week NBC piled on an additional spoken announcement to emphasize the point, adding...