Cisneros media group founded
Decca records founded in UK
Telegraph ticker sends 500 characters per
minute
Ship passengers can phone relatives ashore
Brokers watch stock prices on an automated
electric board
Car radio invented
First magnetic sound recording on plastic
tape
First television studio built in London
Basil Dean forms Associated Talking Pictures
(ATP) and builds studio at Ealing in UK
Bell Labs transmits stills in colour by
mechanical scanning
Zworykin's cathode-ray tube "kinescope"
receiver, 60 scan lines
Baird's tv transmissions using BBC radio
towers during off hours
Bernard Natan establishes Radio-Natan-Vitus
company in France
Natan establishes Television-Baird-Natan
to develop 'visiotelephonie'
TOBIS-Klangfilm formed in Germany by Siemens
and AEG
First Academy Awards in US, with Best Picture
going to Wings
Rapid-Film and Pathe-Cinema merge, gain
control of new Societe de Gerance des Cinemas Pathe
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