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Learn how photos are wired from one end of the country to the other in this clip from a 1937 educational film. It's a pretty amazing piece of not-particularly-high technology. Western Union first sent a halftone photo in 1921, and Associated Press started its WirePhoto service a couple years before this film was made. Love the scenes of the front page being made up with lead type and mattes. Poor ol' newspapers.
Wuxtry! Wirephotos the Wave of Newspaper Future! (1937)
Learn how photos are wired from one end of the country to the other in this clip from a 1937 educational film. It's a pretty amazing piece of not-particularly-high technology. Western Union first sent a halftone photo in 1921, and Associated Press started its WirePhoto service a couple years before this film was made. Love the scenes of the front page being made up with lead type and mattes. Poor ol' newspapers.
1:40 PM on Wed May 14 2008
By Lynn Peril
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