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This is How Press Photos Were Transmitted Back in the 1970s
In our world of digital photography and high speed Internet, photojournalists can quickly and easily send large numbers of high-res photos to the other side of the globe. Things weren’t always so convenient. The video above shows what a photo transmitter looked like back in the 1970s. What you see is a United Press International UPI Model 16-S, which scanned photos and then transmitted them using a telephone line.
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The technology was quite a bit older. My father was a news photographer in the 1950s for Acme Newsphotos (which became UPI), and he described the exact same process: put it on a drum, select the resolution (low, very low, or barely worth sending), and establish the call.
In his case, since he was in Paris, and sending to New York, the call involved an operator, and much "Allo? Allo? What ees zees noises?" "Get the fuck off the line!" The yelling would create dark lines in the photo, which they'd airbrush out, if there was time.
The cool part being that you can see yelling :-D