BROADCASTING PICTURES

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 179, 30 August 1929, Page 14

BROADCASTING PICTURES

.. - FULTOGRAPH IN ATJSTRALIA. Arrangements are well in hand for the transmission of "still" pictures by the Fnltograpli method from 2FC, Sydney, and 3LO, Melbourne. Tbe engineering work is well advanced, arid transmission will begin as soou as business details are arranged. The company responsible for the innovation has a limited nuantity of receiving apparatus available for tbe use of experimenters, ancl tbe demand wliieli ivas set up in Britain for Fnltograpli receivers as soon as tbe B.B.C. began tronsmittiug pictures sboulcl be repeated in Australia. Any object that is capahlc of hcing photographecl can he trausmitted and received under the Fnltograpli system. Ordinary events of tbe day, sections of newspaners, typewritten dncuments ancl business contracts can all be transmitted. Should the polioe desire to transmit a photograph or tlie bnger-prints of a "ivanted" person, it can he put on thc air and transmitted throughout Australia within'five or ten minutes. No dark room or developiiiG: apparatus. is requirecl at tbe reeeivinjr eud. Tho photograph, as ]irinted hv the receiving apparatus, is a permanerit photograph. The receiving apparatus takes the place of a loud suenker. At tbe studio t'liere is attached to thc transmitting anparafus the developecl negntive of a photograph. A powerfnl beam of livht is focnsecl upon tbe ehotographic plate. tbe amount of Hctht being vegulated by tli° AraTvin2 der> sitv of tbe nenrative. A photneleetric cell controR tlie si?nnl s transmitted. Tbese. in tum direct the svlua pen that pn'nts the photograph of tbe receiver. Tbe svnchronisation of tbe transmitter aud receiver is arranged bv a unmher of clutcbpp on thp recen-er. wliiob are op^rated bv svncbrouising si"-"als from tbe transmitter. No urice has yet been fiyed for tb> receiviuT apparatus to ■ Australia, hut it is eptim^^^d +n pes locc +Tin p £49. I