Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover getting started with his speech and his supporters greet him at an official ceremony of the Republican National Convention, Cleveland Ohio. Spotlights focus completely on him. A big hall is packed with members and spectators. Republican National Committee Chairman John Hamilton is seen behind Hoover at the podium, waving and motioning to lighting crews. June 1936.
People looking at an early wireless photoradiogram machine, or radio facsimile, invented by Richard Ranger. Observers include George Carrington and Alvis Ward of Western Electric (and subsequently of All Technical Services and then Altec Lansing Corporation). A man, possibly Richard Ranger sets up the machine to run. Another demonstrates the process of transmitting and receiving data through the machine. Examples of typewritten correspondence and handwritten correspondence are shown. 1936.
Men including George Carrington and Alvis Ward of Western Electric (subsequently of All Technical Services, and then Altec Lansing Corporation) demonstrate a patent model for a recording or sound transmission device. The wooden model has a stylus that passes over ridges of varying heights. 1936.
Alvis Ward of Western Electric (and later of All Technical Services, and then Altec Lansing Corporation), and two other men working in a technical office. Alvis Ward attends to a control panel, observing meter readings and making adjustments while wearing headphones. He turns switches on other machines located away from the control panel. A wireless photoradiogram machine is shown sending or receiving drawings. 1936.
Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover greets the crowd at the Republican National Convention, Cleveland Ohio. The supporters express their respect and applaud enthusiastically. 1936.
Former United States President Herbert Hoover expressing his views at the Republican National Convention. He speaks about opportunism, emotional economics, greed, and power. He spoke out against the Socialist and Fascist dictatorships in Europe, where "they may not have maimed the bodies of men, but they have maimed their souls." He equates the Roosevelt New Deal to European failings. He expresses negative views about President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his policies. He boosts the morale of his fellow republicans. The NBC, MBS, CBC, networks have labeled microphones present to broadcast his speech. 1936.
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