TALKIE, PHONOGRAPH, RADIO, ALL IN ONE (Feb, 1932)
TALKIE, PHONOGRAPH, RADIO, ALL IN ONE
A new “home talkie” device houses in one cabinet a projector for standard sixteen-millimeter film, a phonograph for the sound accompaniment or for ordinary records, and a radio receiver. Words or music accompanying the pictures are played by sixteen-inch disks, synchronized with the film. The hinged top of the cabinet contains the projecting screen.
Home video in 1932- very cool. I wonder if it would’ve caught on were it not for the fact that this was the very bottom of the Depression.
Wow! Can you imagine someone making something like this today, only pocket size, and matbe with a phone and GPS builtin. :^)
Bob
Yeah, but someone would complain that it can’t be used as a motion picture camera!