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Identifier: belltelephonemag15amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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oth interesting and novel. In Philadelphias Convention Hall,the band is in the rear gallery, the organ out of sight under thestage. Under such circumstances, it is easy to foresee some-thing of a musical impasse if the organist launches into Moonover Miami at about the same time that the band leaderdecides the mood of the delegates calls for a Sousa march.The problem is solved by four telephones, one at the organ con-sole, one beside the band leader, one at the rostrum—and oneat the camera platform, for the benefit of the newsreels. Another important accessory of the cameraman, the eightgreat searchlights in the gallery, is likewise controlled by atelephone party line—one at each light and one at the cameraplatform. The use of the telephone at political conventions has ampleand fairly venerable precedent. During the Republican con-vention in 1896, according to a newspaper dispatch at the time,William McKinley, at his home in Canton, 0., was in touch by 165 BELL TELEPHONE QUARTERLY
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Bell System Routes Now Used for Program Transmission, Over WhichLines Denote RotnES of Permanent Program Circuits; 166 ALL AMERICA AT THE CONVENTIONS

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