Japanese Television Tests

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 18, 13 November 1931, Page 5

Japanese Television Tests

DURING the first public demonstration of television in Japan, conducied recently by Dr. Tadaoki Yamamoto, an attempt was made to televise 2 basepall match which was being played about two hundred yards away from the laboratory. The apparatus was found to work quite satisfactorily in the morning, but late in the afternoon, when the time came for televising the game, it ceased functioning properly. This was supposed to be due to the moisture in the air. Movements of the pitcher could be clearly discerned, but according to the report the ball eould not be seen in motion. The umpire’s decisions and shouts of the game were carried #arough a loudspeaker.