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Birth of a United Nations Document

01/01/1948 15:56:53

Unique ID UN7736431

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01/01/1948 11:33:48

Unique ID UN7755297

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01/01/1948 16:23:15

Unique ID UN7736433

Birth of a United Nations Document

01/01/1948 16:23:38

Unique ID UN7736432

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01/01/1948 16:23:20

Unique ID UN7736429

How Does the Sound Get into the Record?

11/01/1948 21:17:44

Unique ID UN7479042

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Headline Birth of a United Nations Document

Caption Description Precision, speed and accuracy are the hall-mark of the astounding mechanism, developed by the United Nations to record its multilingual proceedings. These behind-the-scene pictures show the life story of an official record, from the spoken word to the printed document.
Although the note-takers must be able to pass the 200-words-a-minute test, human beings are only human - a man may be suddenly taken ill for instance, or simply miss a word in the heat of the debate. This is where the machine comes in. The automatic sound recording captures even the fastest spoken words, and the sound track may be referred to, if necessary, for checking purposes.

Unique Identifier UN7736430

NICA ID 111294

Production Date 01/01/1948 4:23:00 PM

City/Location New York

Country United States of America

Credit UN Photo

File size 2.57 MB