Evening star., 1927-06-02
MOVING PICTURES
TOFLASH OVER SEA
Scotch Inventor Plans to
Send Action Scenes
Abroad by Air.

Promising another amazing demon.
stration this month OF radios progress
the young Scotch scientist, j. l..
London to New York to arrange for
tests of the transmission across the
seas by radio not only of pictures, but
of moving scenes.
Two insignificant items in the day s
news suggest the forward strides that
appear to have been made in the field
of television, intriguing subjects of
researches by some OF the best minds
in radio science One is a dispatch
to the Department of Commerce from
its trade commissioner in London, H.
:. Fox, telling of the organization of
the Baird Television Development Co.,
Ltd, backed by British and Ameri-
can capital to the amount of about
$500 900.
The other tells of Mr.. Baird's dem
onstrations of the progress he has
made both with wired and wireless
transmission of images, particularly
images in action, and his prospective
demonstrations in the United States.
His object in coming to these shores,
il is stated, is more to conduct
transatlantic test than to show that
greater progress has been made in
this branch of radio by himself than
by American eXperimenters i'll the
same field.
The last Baird television demonstra-
ton is reported to have been con-
Quoted successfully by wire between
London and Glasgow, a distance of
more than 400 miles. The London
speaker into a telephone is said to
have seen distinctly the features of
the Glasgow listener and to have
been able to observe every twitch and
movement of the latters face. The
distance was considerably longer than
that for the recent demonstration of
the same sort in which Secretary
Hoover. speaking in Washington. was
seen over the telephone in New York.
Mr.. Baird is quoted as saying that
the adaptation of this transmission to
radio is a simple matter, and that it
is only q question of increased power
to permit the transmission of vision
thousands of miles. His claims are
based on a secret light-sensitive me-
dunn. Ten-miie transmission of mov
ing pictures has been tried out re-
peatedly with success between Baird's
home and his laboratory in London.
It is reported his company will erect
many anu hopes lO
cialize particularly the transmission
of pictures across the Atlantic.
An hours concert by the 30-piece
Cadillac-La Sale Symphony Orchestra.
under the direction of Rosario Bour-
don. will bn broadcast tonight by WRC
AS its outstanding musical attraction.
The orchestra will be assisted by SIX
vocal artists, including a male quartet
a and nnnfF1ltn GnlAiSf
The vocalists will be heard in ensem-
BILE. duet and solo renditions, with Or
chestral accompaniment.
Local talent will furnish WRC's pro-
gram from to 10 o'clock. The first
half hour will be devoted to a two
piano recital by Burrus Williams and
Sara Becker. A popular program by
! Ray McCreath and his 'buddies' will
follow.
The Kit Hour of Music. another
WRC attraction, will feature Hazel
Arth. contralto, and Mildred Kolb
Schulze, pianist. There also will be
an organ recital by George f. Ross, a
concert by the Clicquot Club Eskimos
and dance program by the lie Para
dis Band.
The opening concert by the Army
Band at the east front of the Capitol
tonight will be broadcast by WMAL.
The concert will begin at 730 o'clock
and conclude at Q. The only other
musical features scheduled include
the weekly program of Dorsch's
/ Doughboys and a joint recital by
Alice B. Harvey, pianist; Jean West.
brook, violinist, and Frank West
brook, cellist.
Herbert E. Morgan of the Civil
Service Commission will talk at 9
O'Clock on the work of the river and
food service of the Weather Bureau.
Although handicapped by static,
signals Of the out-of-town broadcasters
came through with fair volume last
night and gave DIX dialers the first
real opportunity of the week to make
a satisfactory excursion over the
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