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Show No Usual Telephone In Television Booth When two-way television was successfully suc-cessfully demonstrated In New York City recently by Bell System officials the first thing to strike the observer upon entering the booth was the absence ab-sence of the usual telephone. The booth is lighted with a dim orange light, to which the photoelectric cells are insensitive. The special telephone transmitters and receivers in the booth are concealed. Thus, when one talks face to face to a distant- person, the word seems to issue right from his mouth as one looks at his picture, while the hidden hid-den receiver speaks for him. The reason an ordinary telephone cannot can-not be used is that such an instru-men instru-men would hide part of the speaker's speak-er's face from the observer at a distance, dis-tance, but through this modern arrangement, ar-rangement, of concealed transmitter and receiver, that difficulty is avoided. avoid-ed. Also, naturalness is likewise added to the conversation. o |