Trilingual booklet produced to accompany the Deutsche Reichspost's videophone service, exhibited and displayed in the German Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Exposition.
Near fine.
Price: $375.00
"The Deutsche Reichspost has taken up to rule itself all matters concerning television; being at that time encouraged by the impulses rising from the nationalsocialistic idea."
Illustrated with black and white photographs, this work produced under the Nazi regime shows an operator seated in the "cabin of the television-telephone," equipped with handset and view-screen: "For the talky transmission, a highly qualified apparatus, made by Telefunken, is used, a telecine scanner fitted with a Cinema-projector with a constant film transport and optical picture balance, works together with an iconoscope in such a way that this scanning apparatus with another iconoscope can be easily interchanged." An uncommonly early work in the development of television and the electronic transmission of visual imagery, melding German nationalism with futurism.
Berlin: Deutsche Reichspost, [1937]. 8" x 5.75". Saddle-stapled color pictorial wraps. 21 pages. Minor edgewear; faint touches of soil to back cover.
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