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DURING the Paris Exhibition, it has been arranged that some four hundred monuments and buildings in the smaller villages of France and in the open country will be flood-lighted by five mobile units carrying flood-lighting equipment. Each of the lorries will carry generating plant, and will be manned by three men. It will carry ten spotlights of 3 kilowatts each and ten floodlights of 1J kilowatts. There will also be apparatus for the production of chemical smoke, as well as an amplifier and a loud speaker installation permitting lectures or music, which will be broadcast during the displays. According to the Electrician of May 21, all the services of the Government broadcasting system will be transferred to the radio pavilion at the Paris Exhibition. For this purpose, three large studios with mixing desks and control room, two smaller studios for speakers and announcers, and a television studio are being installed. There will also be an installation for the registering and rebroadcasting of records. The installations will be entirely enclosed in glass so that the public can see all the equipment in operation and yet all risk of noise or crowds interfering with the operations will be prevented. As the stations are broadcasting all day, it will be possible for the public to see at least some part of the Retaliation in operation at all hours of the day. The lighting tour has been organized to extend until the end of October. The general control of the whole system will be centred in a room near the entrance to the pavilion. It will have connexions with both French and foreign stations. In many places, the local authorities are being asked to provide flood-lighting for other buildings of interest.
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Flood-lighting and Broadcasting during the Paris Exhibition. Nature 139, 918–919 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139918d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139918d0