Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-06-04
MOVIE BROADCAST IS
PRESENT POSSIBILITY
Invention Recently Announce
cd at Boston Radio Show
Ready for Use.
FIELD * UNLIMITED o,
Special Lens. Developed by Francis
{. JcniSins, Makes TrnnSmisaion OF
stills. Movies mud Light Signals
Matter nf Present.

Transmission OF pictures by radio
viii he Accomplished within the next
few months. II has been announced
by Washington expert No, only
Will this make possible the sending
Of one photograph across the ocean.
but tho projection of actual moving
pictures or even the reflection OF
the Ccuntcnancc In mirror. IL is
said.
Thcs" Aladdin-likc statements
come from no loss an authority than
G Francis Jenkins. who recently
announced his inventions at the Bos-
among scientists present at the ex-
hibit. Mr.. Jenkins believes he has
solved every element in the prob
l"m OF projecting pictures by radio
with tho laboratory machine upon
which his experiments have been
made. and that the further process
Of commcrcializinG his invention is
a comparatively simple one
Motion-Picturc Expert.
My entry into the radio field came
through my close association with
the notion picture field for the last
twenty-five years" Mr.. Jenkins said
My first contribution 10 the notion
picture industry was motion-pic
ture machine publicly exhibited In
1894. and now on exhibit in the Ma
t!onal Museum.
The new machine for the trans
mission OF pictures by wireless is
the result OF the development of
cral years but which was never
able 20 work out until l hit upon a
new invention and the development
OF optica! glass by which II is now
possible to take as high as 1900
pictures per second. Instead OF the
Intermittent projection 1t is now pos
sihle To have one which is practi-
cally continuous. The principle !s
Very much the same in comparison
with the old steam engine and the
turbine.
In our laboratory experiments.
which We're highly successful. the
apparatus used consisted OF the or
binary radio sending and receiving
Il pair Of prismatic rings of optical
glass and n highly sensitive photo
electrical cell. This cell gives cur
rent values In proportion to ligh,
values.
Description of Trnnsmitter.
THE set which receives the i'm
pr"SSions from the sending set CON
Sists Of a similar group OF prisma;!c
rings and simple light value go
synchrOniZcd with the sending set
as TO record its Impressions exactly.
II is comparatively easy to record
black and white. and am sure thar
when tho machine is further adj
just"d and spccdcd uu u,ncr shades
Of color will be rcproduced'
The practical application OF the
Jenkins invention is just beginning
to b" revealed. II is expected that
II VII! enable moving picture houses
I" project on their screens picture
broadcast from central station.
thereby relieving the necessity for
exchanges and the expense OF send
ing IN" picture 10 more than a few
points Likewise. the Introduction
Of INC broadcast movie into tho pri-
vat" home would work miracles in
realms.
Tho RELAXING of the picture 81
criminal 10y tn" polio" departments
would prove IAN excellent means II
arrr rhcnsion. Numbers o. other an
o!icat!ons nf 'h" remarkable lnvcn-
ton are being worked out hy Mr..
Jenkins