Wireless and Talking Pictures

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 11, 27 September 1929, Page 31

Wireless and Talking Pictures

+ "THE Radioscope, the invention of Mr. G VW. Dowding (technical editor of "Popular Wireless), which, it is understood, is shortly to be demonstrated before British Post Office experts, is an "interesting attempt to link up broadeast. reception together with the home kinema so as to produce what is, in effect,, the "home-talkie." Mr. Dowding’s inventions for synchronising a gtaméphone and a small kinema projector Were recently demonstrated in London and gave a remarkable imitation of the "talkie" in miniature, In this case the gramophone used was one of the standard portable models. , The Radioscope is a development of this type of dual. reproduction in which the "talkie" part is received on an ordinary wireless set. With the hometalkie in which the gramophone {fs used it would be necessary to buy or hire both the film and its corresponding record to get the dual reproduction. whereas With the Radioscope it would only be necessary to buy or hire the kinema film, the single record: in the B.B.C. studio being sufficient for all users within the service area of the station. It is claimed that the introduction of Radioscope items in the B.B.C, programmes will not interfere with the normal service for those listeners who do not posesss home kinema projectors.