From the "Gedenkboek
ter herinnering aan het tienjarig bestaan van de
Nederlandse Vereniging voor Radiotelegrafie 1916-
1926". (Memorial volume in rememberance of the ten
year existence of the Dutch society for Radiotelegraphy,
1916-1926) Home
Radio Movies
By C. Francis Jenkins
Radio Movies for home
entertainment is the next development in which the radio
industry should be interested. This means exactly what it
sounds like, i.e., the broadcasting of pictures from
motion picture film direct, to be reproduced on a small
screen in the home, carried there by radio.
Radio Movies are distined
to bring entertainment of the most enjoyable character to
the greater home audience of good-picture lovers. While
the Radio Movie receiving sets are not yet available for
public distribution, they soon will be, for Radio Movies
are a daily laboratory demonstration, and refinement is
all that remains to be done before merchandising plans
can be put into motion.
Perhaps it may be
explained that the same radio picture set in the home can
receive Radio Vision pictures, from studio subjects or
out-of-door scenes, just as readily as Radio Movies,
i.e., pictures from film. Radio Vision was publicly
demonstrated when on june 13, 1925, Secretary Wilbur, and
others of the U.S. Navy; Acting Secretary Judge Davis of
the Department of Commerce, and friends; and Director Dr.
Burgess of the Bureau of Standards, saw in my laboratory
in Washington what was then happening at the Anacostia
Naval Air Station several miles away.
Probably the first
broadcasting will be a mixed program from both film
(canned pictures) and living actors, just as the first
audible radio was from "canned music" as well
as from living performers direct. So it will not be very
long now before one may see on a small white screen in
ones home notable current events, like
inauguralceremonies, ball games, pageants, as well as
pantomime performance broadcast from motion picture film
Washington, December 1925.
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