Life-Sized Television

"You may be singing in B flat but I'm a mile off." Thus waggishly, but with literal truth, spoke one member of a vaudeville duet team in Schenectady, N. Y., last week.

Truth was that one member was in General Electric laboratories, the other in Proctor's Theatre. On a screen six feet by seven feet the audience saw and heard both members of the team performing their act by telephone and television.

Significance of the occasion was the size of the screen. It was the first demonstration of life-size television. After three years of work Dr. Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson, G. E. researcher, had developed his images from postage stamp size to a scale where the theatre owners deemed it suitable for inclusion in their regular show program.

New television possibilities were publicized by General Electric in conjunction with its report of progress. Example: manless bombing planes equipped with television so that operators in a base camp can watch for an auspicious moment to discharge the plane's load of explosives. To lend substance, Dr. Alexanderson announced his departure for Panama "at the invitation of the Navy ... to study some of the practical conditions for the realization of such ideas."

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