Fun to see all the work they did to get that photograph sent by wire for the parole board to make the walk over to another building to see the end finished product .. Must be the first time in movies that sending a photo by wire over hundreds of miles was used .. kinda like the first email ....
shareDid you just see this flick on tcm? i had it save on my dvr and saw it today! yeah i thought that was pretty cool too! i had no idea that kind of technology existed back then
When you got to shoot,shoot. Don't talk.-Tuco
No. Like early faxes. Email in an entirely different protocol.
shareIn WWII photos from the Pacific were sometimes sent electronically to the states.
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Don't know when fax machines became the norm but I saw the 'wire' machine in use in a major NYC bank in '78.
Every third person who complains will be shot. Two people have complained already!
I, too, truly enjoyed seeing this early cousin of the fax machine at work; I was not aware such technology existed and was as widespread as it was at the time until I saw the demonstration in this film... I was very happy they included it in the storyline.
shareSame here. It was a fun history lesson on this technology :)
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Yes, indeed! : )
shareI'm going to ramble for a moment, in case someone here is interested (and can maybe shed some light on the subject) -- I have reason to suspect that the dial-up internet sound has been around since the early years of the telephone (which I think is much like the sound a fax machine makes if you pick up the receiver). There's a Fred & Ginger film called Carefree from 1938 in which Jack Carson's character makes sound effects with his voice in order to make it sound like an operator is connecting an offshore/long distance call. The sounds he makes are reminiscent of what we hear with dial-up internet/fax machines.
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Wow, that's the earliest I've heard of phreaking (phone hacking) being displayed in a film but I have not yet seen it (but will be looking for it - Carefree - soon)... I decided to look up the history of the fax machine after reading your post and it has apparently been around since the 1840s, with the first graphical transmission taking place in 1846! Wow!...
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/11/shockingly-old-history-fax-machine/
Thank you for looking that up. I never would've guessed the technology went that far back. It's a shame Alexander Bain didn't get more credit for his inventions. It seems that type of thing has happened too often in history. At least he got compensated (somewhat) for inventing the electric clock.
A little less than two years ago I made a post on the Carefree board asking if connecting offshore/long distance calls really did resemble the sounds that dial-up internet and fax machines make. Coincidentally someone recently replied: "I guess I'll be revealing how ancient I am, but I go back to non-dial (manual switchboard) phones -- in a small town), and that's what almost any really bad conection sounded like."
I checked listings for Carefree for the next couple of weeks and didn't see it. If I recall correctly TCM often features Fred Astaire films in December, so Carefree may be part of that.
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