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THE National Geographic Society, Washington, claims that the broadcasting of a series of programmes before and during the eclipse of June 8-9 from one of the (normally) uninhabited islands of the Phoenix Group will be the first instance of broadcasting “from a desert island”. It will not be the first eclipse which has been1 broadcast from an eclipse camp, as Dean Eve broadcast to Canada the total eclipse of 1932 from a camp at Magog, but it will probably be the first time when an announcer and two engineers of a national broadcasting company have formed part of an eclipse expedition to a foreign country. The scientific details of the eclipse expedition arranged by the National Geographic Society were published in NATURE of April 24, p. 698; but one or two points of general interest may be added here. The duration of totality at noon will be longer than at any other eclipse over a stretch of 1,238 years; unfortunately, it takes place at a point 1,500 miles from the nearest land. A special self-bailing boat will be used to take the equipment ashore, and the U.S. naval seaplane tender will stand by the island during the expedition's stay ashore. A complete black and white motion picture record of the eclipse will be made and colour ‘movies' may also be taken.
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Broadcasting an Eclipse. Nature 139, 917 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139917c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139917c0