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favor, and main- are now rimning daily picture pages as regular 

 features. 



Some of the possibilities in this direction were demonstrated by 

 the picture news service furnished to newspapers, especially those 

 in New York and Chicago, diiring the 1924 Republican and Demo- 

 cratic National Conventions at Cleveland and New York. During 

 these conventions several hundred photographs were transmitted 

 between Cleveland and New York and between New York and 

 Chicago, and copies furnished the Press at the receiving points. 

 Photographs made shortly after the opening sessions, usually about 

 noon, were transmitted to New York and Chicago and reproduced 

 in afternoon papers. A demonstration of picture news service on a 

 still larger scale was furnished on March 4th, 1925, when pictures of 

 the inauguration of President Coolidge were transmitted from Wash- 

 ington simultaneously to New York, Chicago and San Francisco, 

 appearing in the afternoon papers in all three cities. Illustrations of 

 t\pical news pictures are given in Figs. 14 and 18. The transmission 

 of timely cartoons offers another field for service. Fig. 19. 



Other news-distributing agencies can also use electrically trans- 

 mitted pictures to advantage. Among these are the services which 

 make a specialty of displaying large photograjihs or half-tone repro- 

 ductions in store windows and other prominent places. Electrically 

 transmitted pictures of interesting events, about which newspapers 

 have published stories, appear suited to this service, and have already 

 been so used by some of these picture service companies. They 

 may also be used as lantern slides for the display of news events 

 of the day by projection either upon screens in front of newspaper 

 offices or in moving picture theaters. 



Miscellaneous commercial uses have been suggested. Photographs 

 of samples or merchandise, of building sites, and of buildings for sale 

 may be mentioned. The quick distribution of moving picture 

 "stills" which is now done by aeroplane is one illustration of what 

 may prove to be a considerable group of commercial jihotographs 

 for which speedy distribution is of value. 



