I love the box on the second page listing all of the licensed TV stations in the U.S. All 25 of them.
Giant Television Images
By H. WINFIELD SECOR
ULYSSES A. SANABRIA is one of the foremost geniuses in Television today. Mr. Sanabria is only 24 years of age, yet this youthful electrical wizard has demonstrated to the engineering fraternity and to the press, the largest television images thus far shown. The author was present at the New York demonstration when television images six and one-half feet square were exhibited and they were surprisingly clear. At the New York Radio Show, television images 10 by 14 ft., have been promised by Sanabria. The following description of the Sanabria system for producing these gigantic television images is authentic and was obtained in a recent interview with Mr. Sanabria.
AT the Radio Trade Show held in Chicago last spring, and also at a recent demonstration given to engineers and members of the press in New York City, Ulysses A. Sanabria startled his audience by showing surprisingly clear television images six and one-half feet square. Many of those present took advantage of the inventor’s invitation to stand in front of the television pickup, and thus have the images of their faces projected on the glass exhibition screen, much to the enjoyment of their friends. Considerable merriment was caused when some of the wittier ones, who posed in front of the photo-cells, made a few remarks which were picked up by a microphone and sent through an amplifier to a loud speaker below the glass screen on which the moving images of the speaker appeared.
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Sharp reintroduced this idea last year with the Dual View, an LCD that allows two viewers to see different images depending on their viewing angle. Though frankly I think the glasses make this one look much cooler. Even the dog has a pair.
Two-Headed TV Set Displays Two Different Shows at Once
Two people can enjoy different TV programs at the same time with a new set. The experimental Du Mont Duoscopic is actually two receivers in one cabinet, with two chassis, two sets of controls and two viewing tubes mounted at right angles (inset). A semitransparent mirror superimposes the two pictures, but each viewer sees only one show by watching through polarizing spectacles. Earphones handle the sound.
This article was written about a year after George Orwell introduced the world to Big Brother. Since closed circuit television cameras have become one of the most important and wide spread tools of “Big Brother” it seems a rather appropriate title for the article. The even mention the privacy aspect in comparison to the “much-debated wire-tapping”.
TV’s LITTLE BROTHER
By Creighton Peet
YOU CAN use it for anything—absolutely anything. It will show you what’s going on around corners, through walls, underwater, in the dark, at the bottom of an oil well—or inside the human stomach.
It’s TV’s little brother, a small and comparatively inexpensive wired television setup designed for industrial uses. Already three such devices are on the market. Diamond Power Specialty, a subsidiary of I.T.&T. has the Utiliscope; Remington Rand has developed its Vericon, and RCA the Vidicon. In one model the orthicon tube is the size and shape of a small flashlight, and its housing looks like a 16-mm. home movie camera.
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It’s comforting to know that the media industry’s fascination with screwing their customers by telling them how they can use their own TVs is nothing new.
Pay-as-You-Look Television
“Phone vision,” developed by Zenith Radio Corporation, offers paying television audiences the cream of latest stage plays and movies. A combination home receiver brings in free programs as usual. Special features reach it partly by air, partly by phone line. Blurred when viewed alone (above, right), the radio image becomes clearer (left) with key frequencies received by phone. “Admission charges” go on phone bill.
