• Hawkins
    +4

    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.

    • oystein
      +3

      The cool part being that you can see yelling :-D