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NJARC's Internet
Television Station
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NJARC
Streaming Media
Streaming
video and audio files
July 2006: We've been fortunate to assemble a
virtual treasure trove of early radio- and
technology-related film clips. Lots of footage of radios and
electronics dating back to the twenties and thirties, and lots
of radio-related WWII military footage too! We'll be posting
this video here for your viewing pleasure. Please check back
often. There's lots more come!
These clips require a broadband connection. If
you don't have a fast enough Internet connection, remember
that the entire video
library is available on VHS and DVD with free borrowing
privileges for all members. See Phil
Vourtsis at any meeting to sign out videos.
We've had great success using Google Video to
stream our programs. We also have clips in the Windows Media
Video format at approximately 300kbps. All of these videos
will play nicely on a cable modem and should stream on most
DSL connections. Plus, remember that you can always download a
high bandwidth clip and play it from your hard drive
regardless of your actual connection speed (even dialup!)
Windows Media Video files play reliably in
Internet Explorer. If you're using Mozilla Firefox as your web
browser, you may experience problems. There is information
readily available on the web on how to get .wmv files to play
correctly when using Firefox.
Please let me
know if you experience any problems, have any preferences
or other comments that will help us to make this area of the
website as enjoyable and usable as possible. I'll appreciate
any feedback on this. Thanks. Dave
Sica
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Radar Moonbounce at Camp Evans: Project Diana
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Project Diana: Radar Makes a Round Trip to
the Moon
This film, produced by Universal Studios in 1946
shows actual footage of the Project Diana radar moonbounce
tests conducted at Camp Evans, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey –
the current site of our club's Marconi cottage museum at the
InfoAge complex!
In Project Diana, army engineers bounced radar
signals off the moon for the first time. Shots include: the
base installation, instrument panels, the antenna and closeups
of the radar signal on oscilloscope screens. At the end of the
film project supervisor Colonel John DeWitt discusses the
experiment and speculates on the future.
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Radar Secrets Revealed
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Radar Secrets
Revealed
Universal Studios,
c. 1945
“Miracle
of radar revealed”. Ground detectors and direction
finders. Radar antenna on plane can find shoreline or entire
convoy. Directional equipment on ground can spot enemy and
friendly planes.
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Big
Da-Dit-Da Class Graduated
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Big
Da-Dit-Da Class Graduated
Universal
Studios, 1941
Noroton,
CT: Several hundred enlisted men complete a course in radio
engineering at the U.S. Navy school here and graduate as radio
operators. Listen to them as they learn their 'Da-Dit-Das'.
Includes some sound of Morse code.
(I
know this was deadly serious stuff during the war, but this
film cracks me up! --ed.)
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Back of the Mike
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Back
of the Mike
An
insider's view of the 1930s radio studio showing the
production of dramatic sound effects.
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Spot News
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Spot
News (the story of wirephoto transmission)
This
1937 film presents an overview of the then-new technique of
sending photographs over the telephone wires.
Wirephoto
transmission was one of the early forerunners of today's fax
machine. (The story of the Teleautograph in the New Jersey
Antique Radio Club's video library tells about an even earlier
ancestor of the fax machine!
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Collective Intelligence: Antique Radios
Windows
Media Video
(Best viewed in
Internet Explorer)
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Collective Intelligence: Antique Radios
A television program about collecting antique
radios. Much of the program was shot at our 2006 Spring
Swapmeet in Parsippany, NJ and several of our members are
featured. While a few small factual errors and a couple of
questionable opinions sneaked into the program, on the whole
it painted a very nice picture of the antique radio collecting
hobby.
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How Vinyl Records Are Made
Windows
Media Video
(Best viewed in
Internet Explorer)
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A video demonstration of the process of
cutting and pressing vinyl records.
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A Promotional Spot for the
First Annual Early Television Convention DVD
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The First Early Television Convention was
held in the spring of 2003 at the Early
Television Foundation and Museum in Hilliard Ohio.
This
video clip summarizes the presentations made at the Convention
as an introduction to the DVD which offers full documentary
coverage of the event.
(NOTE: A copy of the DVD is
available for viewing through the NJARC video library.)
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Radio Contest
November, 2003
Windows
Media Video
(Best viewed in Internet Explorer)
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Radio Contest
Diplays, judging and
awards for the 2003 Radio Contest.
November, 2003 NJARC meeting.
(Running time: 35 minutes)
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NJARC "Show and
Tell" Meeting October, 2003
Windows
Media Video
(Windows Media Video is best viewed in
Internet Explorer)
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Show and Tell
This is a copy of
the full-length video documentation of our member "Show
and Tell" presentation at the October 2003 meeting.
(Running time: 51 minutes)
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Cablevision's coverage of the Dover Swapmeet
Cable
or DSL
Windows
Media Video
Real
Video
Dial-Up
Windows
Media Video
Real
Video
(Windows Media Video is best viewed in Internet Explorer)
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Cablevision's coverage of the Dover
Swapmeet
Cablevision of Morris County covered our
Dover swapmeet. See the feature story first aired on September
15, 2004.
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Danny Stiles
Cable or DSL
Windows
Media Video
Real
Video
Dial-Up
Real
Video
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Danny Stiles' Presentation at December 2003
Meeting
Legendary radio broadcaster Danny Stiles
joined NJARC at our 2003 Holiday Party. His presentation can
be viewed here.
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Vintage Theremin Demonstration
Cable or
DSL
Real
Video
Dial-Up
Real
Video
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Scott Marshall plays a vintage RCA
Theremin
Theremin artist and NJARC member Scott
Marshall plays an original RCA Theremin from the 1930s at the
"Hands on History" day at the David Sarnoff Library.
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NJARC's 10th Anniversary
Video
Cable
Windows
Media video (near-DVD quality)
DSL
Windows
Media video (VHS quality)
Dial-Up
Real
Video (eech! Quality)
(Windows Media Video
is best viewed in Internet Explorer)
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A brief history of the New Jersey Antique
Radio Club
Plus the Best
of 10 years of Show and Tell.
(Originally
produced for our 10th anniversary holiday party, December
2002.)
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“Nikola Tesla: You're a Man
Out of Time"
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“Nikola Tesla:
You're a Man Out of Time"
A music video produced as a tribute to Nikola
Tesla by Paul and Stephen Hone of Force H studios.
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"NJ's Disappearing Army
Bases"
Click
here to Listen
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"NJ's Disappearing Army Bases"
WNYC feature story, originally broadcast June
21, 2005. Features an interview with Fred Carl of InfoAge.
Read the full story on WNYC.ORG
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NPR Interview with Princess Mary
Elettra Elena Anna Marconi
Real
Audio
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NPR Interview with Princess Mary Elettra
Elena Anna Marconi
January 17, 2003
An interview
with Marconi's daughter on the 100th anniversary of his first
radio telegram.
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Promotional Spot for the DVD of
the First Annual Early Television Convention
Broadband
MPEG-4 (Quicktime) streaming
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The First Early Television Convention was
held in the spring of 2003 at the Early
Television Foundation and Museum Early Television Foundation
and Museum in Hilliard Ohio.
This video clip
summarizes the presentations made at the Convention as an
introduction to the DVD which offers full documentary coverage
of the event.
(NOTE: A copy of the DVD is available for
viewing through the NJARC video library.)
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