Long Distance Cinema

Movies by radio is the latest 24 hours’ wonder. The inventor is C. Francis Jenkins, of Washington, D. C. He has transmitted ” still ” pictures from Washington to Philadelphia, and action pictures from one room to an adjoining one. The device is somewhat similar to that used in ” telephotography,” the light reflected from the pictures being cut into innumerable flashes by a ” radio eye,” a revolving disc composed of many mirrors. The flashes are transmitted into a photo-electric cell, which transforms them into electric waves to be relayed by wire or radio. The receiving apparatus just reverses the process. Mr. Jenkins is now working to secure longer distance in transmission.

No Pole Flight

In Dover, England, Leon Amundsen, brother of Roald (explorer), receiveda telegram dated Norwick, Alaska: “Trial flight held May 11. result very unsatisfactory. Sorry forced to abandon proposed flight [over North Pole].Have written.”