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    "1930s How Photographs Were Transmitted by Wire: Spot News (1937)"

    very interesting and well made period movie

    Scanning!

    https://youtu.be/cLUD_NGE370?si=WvFez9XTIlHZ1tuU
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    Re: "1930s How Photographs Were Transmitted by Wire: Spot News (1937)"

    Very interesting. It's the precursor to the drum scanner.

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    Re: "1930s How Photographs Were Transmitted by Wire: Spot News (1937)"

    Very cool. Same principle used on movie film to make sound using Photosensitive tubes in projectors.
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    Re: "1930s How Photographs Were Transmitted by Wire: Spot News (1937)"

    Thanks for sharing.
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    Re: "1930s How Photographs Were Transmitted by Wire: Spot News (1937)"

    Quote Originally Posted by Larry Gebhardt View Post
    It's the precursor to the drum scanner.
    Which were in use by the end of the 1940s.

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    Re: "1930s How Photographs Were Transmitted by Wire: Spot News (1937)"

    Quote Originally Posted by Tin Can View Post
    very interesting and well made period movie

    Scanning!

    https://youtu.be/cLUD_NGE370?si=WvFez9XTIlHZ1tuU
    If you like this, wait till you figure out half-tone screens and printing.

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    Re: "1930s How Photographs Were Transmitted by Wire: Spot News (1937)"

    Amazing video, thanks a lot for sharing!

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    Re: "1930s How Photographs Were Transmitted by Wire: Spot News (1937)"

    I read somewhere (decades ago) the famous photograph of the Hindenburg disaster was sent over Atlantic by telephone cable, now I know how! Fascinating.

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