The Adventure Film

In 1954, Haskins Laboratories was featured in an episode of the CBS television documentary show Adventure hosted by Charles Collingwood, and co-sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History The episode consisted of two segments, the first about research at Haskins and the second about Bali. The video on this page is a short version of what has become known as the Adventure film, showing only the Haskins segment of the episode.

The Adventure film features Frank Cooper, Al Liberman, and Pierre Delattre demonstrating the use of the Haskins Pattern Playback.

Please note that the quality of this video is not good because of multiple transfers over the years from film to videotape and then to digital form.

(NOTE: To display this movie, first try clicking on the picture above, Depending on your browser and/or device, you may need to first click on the icon of an arrow inside a small square at the top right, if this icon appears. If this works, you can scale this to full-screen by clicking on the icon at the bottom right corner of the movie window. If you continue having difficulty viewing the above video on your device or with a particular browser, then please try clicking here to see the Adventure Film via YouTube.)

The original Pattern Playback now resides in the museum at the Haskins Laboratories, in New Haven, Connecticut.

This is a legacy demo intended to capture a bit of this history of Haskins Laboratories.

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