Word: wirephoto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Associated Press proposed two years ago to set up a $1,000,000 Wirephoto service for transmitting news pictures over telephone wires, AP Subscribers William Randolph Hearst and Roy Wilson Howard fought the plan as an "unjustifiable extravagance." First picture transmitted when Wirephoto got going last year was news: an airplane wreck in upper New York State. Other first-day photographs seemed to justify the Hearst-Howard complaints (TIME...
...they were experiencing a journalistic revolution, that news pictures were being served to them almost as hot as the news itself. But, having scooped their competitors with shots of the Rogers-Post crash, Minneapolis labor riots, the Florida hurricane, the S. S. Dixie's, grounding and lesser events, Wirephoto subscribers are well satisfied with their experiment. That pictures-by-telephone have established themselves to stay was proven last week when, on the heels of similar news from the New York Times's Wide World picture service, International News Photos and Acme News-pictures both announced that they would...
More astonishing is a device for wire transmission of news pictures, which may be Publisher Hearst's answer to the Associated Press's Wirephoto (TIME, April 29). The Hearst invention is portable, requires no leased wires, can be hooked up to any telephone. It resembles a conventional telephoto set in employing a tiny beam of light and photo-electric cell to scan the photograph. But the light impulses are converted into a shrill whistling sound. An ordinary telephone transmitter is clamped in place to catch the sound. At the receiving end of the telephone wire the waves...
...Associated Press's $1,000,000-a-year Wirephoto system flashed a copy of the certificate to Mae West. Said she: "It has no signatures. The names were written in by the clerk. I'm sorry about that. The bride's handwriting would bear...
Resolution No. 4: Let a committee of five, including at least three nonusers of Wirephoto, review the whole transaction and determine if the AP's credit and the interests of all members have been protected. Neylan: "I demand a record vote." Carl L. Estes of the Longview, Tex.) News, bitingly: ". . . I've had enough of this self-appointed, self-anointed shepherd of the little fellow. " Vote: Tabled...