CINEMA TELEVISION

Evening Star, Issue 22448, 19 September 1936, Page 27

CINEMA TELEVISION

DIFFICULTIES OVERCOME The difficulties of showing television pictures oil a full-size cinema screen have been triumphantly overcome. The work has been done in a Loudou laboratory (says the London ‘ Observer's ’ television correspondent). The size of the pictures we have been promised when television really starts in this country is about 13in by lliu. Large enough for a few people to look at together in a primate house, and that is all. The size seems about the limit possible with tile cathode-ray tubereceiver, to which most manufacturers have pinned their faith. The pictures seen last week—-the first demonstration to be given to anyone outside the Scophony laboratories in Kensington—were, however, sft by 4ft. The screen was adequately illuminated and the definition was good. I gathered from Mr Sagall, the managing director of Scophony Ltd., that I was receiving their medium receiver, intended for use in halls, stores, schools, and large houses. In another room was a large machine of exactly the same type as the medium instrument, and facing it a screen that would take a picture 16ft by 12ft—full cinema size. After these big instruments_ the “homo receiver” seemed a simple thing to look at, but it put up an excellent show. The pictures are good, and have a quality about them—perhaps “ smoothness ” describes it—which I have not seen in the best cathode ray receivers. The light is good, really remarkable, seeing that the light source is a small filament lamp, and the whole thing is worthy of the very best the 8.8. C. can give us, when they start work.