The Radio Newspaper (1937)

Soundtrack is currently missing for this issue. Titles read: The RADIO Newspaper. New York, United States of America. Various shots of a new device being demonstrated, a kind of early fax machine In a laboratory we see a man fitting a small sheet of newspaper into a machine. He then goes on the air, speaking into a radio microphone presumably reading out a summary of the same story (US Gunboat Off to Nanking). In a living room we see a woman tuning a button on a radio set as she listens with a man. C, U of the newspaper story moving through the machine as a small photoelectric cell runs over the print. The light variations from the paper are transformed into electrical vibrations and transmitted over the air. Brief L, S of radio transmitter masts. A smaller device on the receiving set changes the electric currents back into light and the newsprint and picture are printed out on a roll of paper. The woman tears the sheet from the back of their radio set and gives half to the man to