New Britain herald., 1925-12-31
Through fife Static

eThere was nothing the matter
 with reception last night. although
 for d time we thought the matter of
 volume was going to be trouble some. Along about o'clock stations
 were coming in with sort of q
 don't care manner, fadng to all parts of the globe amid then returning
 haphazardly with no pep or am
 bition. But as the evening wore along things began to brighten considerably and the night was real
 ly a good one. We counted three crashes of static all evening. There
 was some electrical interference in the course Of the night, but none of it lasted. The regeneratiVes were not as troublesome as usual for some unknown reason.
 WEES transmission during the dance program from inc Hotel Kim ball shortly before s o'clock, couldn't have been much wors" il the station staff had deliberately tried to queer the work. The station raspcd in and out, sometimes curl ing up with q snar and at other times becoming so much mush. We turned in just as Ted LeWis who was in Springfield yesterday and the day before, was singing the chorus 10 Just Around The Cor ner." His familiar "Comc, Comet Give h." "Aha." and Hey, Hey" spoken through his nose, was enough 10 tell Us that he was there, although his method. of interpreting numbers establishes q trade mark.
 Well, just as soon as control was transferred to the Hotel Brunswick studio at BpstOu things were better ed considerably. From that point we heard one of the most interesting talks of the season. 1t was given by person whose name must be un- mentioned, merely because We don't know what it was, At any rate, he was delivering the first of series Of addresses on the motion picture m- dustry. the making and taking of pictures. His subject last evening was Forthcoming" and he described at length the process of making the movie cartoons, which endow the characters with motion and action. The process Of making one of the movie cartoons is q tedious one, there being something like 3,00o drawings needed 10 make one short reel. This fellow then took US through one of the "Acsop's Fable animated cartoons, describing the picture as it was flashed upon an screen. From his desCrip- ton. one would have thought that he was watching the picture and de- scrtbing il, so realistically did he put the talk over, Next week on W"d- nesday evening at S:30 o'clock, the second talk will be given, this time on the making of news reel. Tune in, folks, because it will be worth hearing, WBH. Wednesday, S:30 p, m, S5S meters.
 We heard WTIC's broadcast of time signals at 9:55 for the first time. We don't know how long that has been going on, but it Is a good stunt. The signals came through sharp and clear and the mussiness identified with many other stations whom the signals are being rebroad- cast from MA was not present.
 WIN, New York. faded disgust ingly all evening.
 The Ipana Troubadours at WEAF, offered an interesting dance pro- gram. taking the most popular dance of each year since 1910. We got there just as 1922 was be- ing announced and we heard again that old favorite, Three O'clock in Ths Morning" For 1923, the orches- tra played "Yes, We Have No Bananas" score one for our side, and for 1924 Al Alone" was pre- 5ented. Just at that point we were attracted by the time signals and, IS We didn't know where they could le coming from, We left to inVcsti- gate. finding that WTIC was sending hem out. When we returned 10 NEAF, after setting our watch, ihr orchestra was ending the program