Identified! [A Jenkins Television Co. worker with device to broadcast motion pictures over radio signals]
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When: 01 January 1929
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Harris & Ewing,, photographer.
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[1929 July or August]
1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
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Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
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United States.
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Harris & Ewing photograph collection (DLC) 2009632509
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hec.35461
Call Number: LC-H2- B-3489-5
Source: Flickr Commons
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[1929 July or August]
1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
Notes:
Date based on date of negatives in same range.
Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955.
Subjects:
United States.
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see Harris & Ewing Photographs - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/140_harr.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Harris & Ewing photograph collection (DLC) 2009632509
General information about the Harris & Ewing Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.hec
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hec.35461
Call Number: LC-H2- B-3489-5
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Owner: The Library of CongressSource: Flickr Commons
Views: 1427
Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )
It appears to be a 16mm projector.
ART NAHPRO
https://www.flickr.com/photos/richardarthurnorton I think it is more than just a projector it seems to be projecting at a black spinning disk with perforations and that is directed at at an aperture in the big electronic device to the left ..maybe an ealy attmpt to transmit moving pictures electronically..like TV
Jon (LOC P&P)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected], that's what I'm wondering too. Could the disk be a Nipkow disk which was used in mechanical televisions? What I still don't get is what does that part against the wall do? Is all of that to transmit the signal?
ART NAHPRO
He looks rather like Philo Farnsworth the American TV pioneer and inventor although most photos show Farnsworth's hair more unkempt
Jon (LOC P&P)
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]], look at this newspaper photo of C. Francis Jenkins with his "television instrument": chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014519/1929-07-29/ed-.... That's the same machine as this one.
ART NAHPRO
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jon_loc Oh yes definitely
ART NAHPRO
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jon_loc I don't actually think the photo is of Phio Farnsworth..perhaps just a technician at the Jenkins Television Corporation
Jon (LOC P&P)
And then I realize we had another photo of Jenkins with the same machine: www.loc.gov/item/2013647230/.
ART NAHPRO
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/jon_loc] If you scroll down this article this is a photo taken in the same room with Jenkins and another man www.1519connecticut.com/historical-photos.html probably the same one as your newspaper article
ART NAHPRO
https://www.flickr.com/photos/jon_loc haha yes..the same one in the article I posted just now
ceebee23
clearly a mechanical television film scanner....
Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )
The process and the device is generically called a telecine, a portmanteau of television and cinema. It scans the film and converts the 24 fps of film to the 30 fps used in video transmission and alters the aspect ratio. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine
Jon (LOC P&P)
I think Jenkins' television ran at 15 fps (with a resolution of 48x48).