evision: - Early Television Foundation

26 TELEVISION: THE REVOLUTION
there may be a reshuffling of the kilocycles assigned
to the various broadcasting organizations.
If television gets broader chunks of the
ultra-high frequencies, the way will be open for
broadcasting pictures up
to a thousand lines.
This will mean home sight-radio of as fine quality
as the best motion pictures comparable to
magazine half-tones.
Color television is
almost ready. The process
is simple. A whirling disc is set up
in front of
the television camera, and a similar one in front
of the receiver screen. The discs are transparent,
and divided into three segments, each tinted to
one of the primary colors. At the transmitting
end, the whirling disc televises one picture in
red, the next in yellow,
a third in blue. At the
receiver, the other color-disc exactly in step
with the one at the transmitter dyes the kinescope
screen successively red, yellow, and blue,
to correspond with the monocolored images
from the transmitter. What comes out is a perfect
fusing of all the colors of the spectrum, in
their proper values.
All video programs
need not come from a
studio. Field television service is steadily improving.
For short transmissions "remote"