Evening star., 1936-02-02
Broadcast of Huey Long
Speech Is Hint of Scope
Lewis Windmuller Files Have Complete
Transcriptions of George V Jubilee and
Record of Kipling Address to America.

presentation is being employed in in
creasing degree, especially as q means
of illustrating news events" It Is
also quite efficacious for repeating i'm
portant broadcasts over the empire
short-wave service to the colonies and
dominions at more favorable listening
hours than the immediate time zone
differential might permit.
Britains radio organization has a
library Of records that includes the
voices of leaders in every sphere of
life, together with records of old Brit
ish customs and dialects which are
believed to be dying out. Recently
records Of the voices of Lloyd George.
Winston Churchill and other notables
made before the war. have been added
to records of their speeches in later
years. Efforts are even now being
made, the B. B. c. reports, to revive
the voices of Gladstone, Lord Rose
berry and Lord Salisbury made on an
cient Photographic cylinders toward
the end of the last century. The COM
pany also has in its library" the
voices of Theodore Roosevelt, William
Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson.
WHILE the Radio Corp. Of Amer
w lea is busy again denying pub
lished reports that it will shortly have
a 5000 television receiving set on the
market-reports that are obviously un-
founded in view of the lack of trans
mission facilities for programming
such equipment-word comes from
England that the Cinematograph Ex-
hibitors' Association is considering
the banning of films for television
transmission until they are at least
three months old.
England's first public television
system goes into operation some time
this Spring, with two transmitters
Offering two different types Of pictures
locally in the London area and with
receiving apparatus costing from $3.50
to $400 going on the market as test
of public response. The American
television experimenters are awaiting
field tests of the experimental trans
mitter being installed in the Empire
State Building, New York, before de-
termining whether vision by radio is
ready to come out Of the laboratories.
ONE of the perplexing problems OF
television is the source of program
supply, and it has been suggested that
fllm subjects be used largely. The
British film mems ban is aimed pri-
marily at the televising Of news films.
but the British radio press reports
that the British Broadcasting Corp.
will probably install its own news film
ing unit as source of supply. if neces-
sary. Moreover, it is recalled here
that Gaumont British, the big motion
picture producer, is controlling stock
holder of Baird Televis'on, Ltd, which
Is one of the two systems to be in
augurated in London this Spring.
Meanwhile. another report comes
from Germany that plans are under
way there to televise some of the
Olympic games in Berlin in August.
While television sets are not common
ly on the market in the Reich, there
are a number of transmitters in regu-
lar operation and there are several
public viewing posts" in Berlin. where
people can gather to watch the re-
ceived images
Here the r. c. A., as result of
premature reports that its visual sets
will soon be on the market, issued
statement that ''television has long
way to 60 before it will be ready for
general home service" and that until
preliminary tests of the New York
transmissions to a number of strate-
gically placed experimental receivers
are concluded the company obvious
ly cannot be in position to contem-
plate commercial service in the near
future" Practically no one but
r. G. A. engineers will be permitted
to view the images on the test receive
ers, which are now being manufac-
tured \ in the company's factory at
Camden, N. J..