THE STRANGE WOMAN - PART 1

Movie 1946. Posted by request.

Hedy Lamarr in her femme fatale role. Co-starring George Sanders and Louis Hayward

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[koln1996]

Hedy Lamarr was one of the most gorgeous actresses ever!

She didn't deserve her sad, pathetic final years!

[htuomnom]

REPLACED her no,no one could replace her

[Zombie00Goddess]

Hedy would have been a much better Scarlett than Vivien Leigh...her eyes were *really* green,not blue that had to have yellow lighting)no offense to Ms.Leigh,but to me she never really seemed the part).And forget her accent(which wasn't even that thick),since Vivien's English accent was obvious no matter how 'southern' she tried to sound.

[honeylocs2008]

Thanks for posting this. I love film noir!

[Jazzsuds]

Lamarr's and Antheil's frequency-hopping idea serves as a basis for modern spread-spectrum communication technology, such as COFDM used in Wi-Fi network connections and CDMA used in some cordless and wireless telephones.[6] Blackwell, Martin, and Vernam's 1920 patent Secrecy Communication System (1598673) seems to lay the communications groundwork for Kiesler and Antheil's patent which employed the techniques in the autonomous control of torpedoes.

[Jazzsuds]

It is reported that, in 1998, Ottawa wireless technology developer Wi-LAN, Inc. "acquired a 49 percent claim to the patent from Lamarr for an undisclosed amount of stock" (Eliza Schmidkunz, Inside GNSS),[5] although expired patents have no economic value. Antheil had died in 1959.

[Jazzsuds]

Although a presentation of the technique was soon made to the U.S. Navy, it met with opposition and was not adopted.[citation needed]

The idea was not implemented in the USA until 1962, when it was used by U.S. military ships during a blockade of Cuba after the patent had expired. Perhaps owing to this lag in development, the patent was little-known until 1997, when the Electronic Frontier Foundation gave Lamarr an award for this contribution.

[Jazzsuds]

Lamarr took her idea to Antheil and together, Antheil and Lamarr submitted the idea of a secret communication system in June 1941. On August 11, 1942, US Patent 2,292,387 was granted to Antheil and "Hedy Kiesler Markey", Lamarr's married name at the time. This early version of frequency hopping used a piano roll to change between 88 frequencies and was intended to make radio-guided torpedoes harder for enemies to detect or jam.

[Jazzsuds]

Avant garde composer George Antheil, a son of German immigrants and neighbor of Lamarr, had experimented with automated control of musical instruments, including his music for Ballet Mécanique, originally written for Fernand Léger's 1924 abstract film. This score involved multiple player pianos playing simultaneously.

[Jazzsuds]

She was also, for those who don't know, an inventor!

[bronteteri]

Hedy Lamarr helped our serve men in WWII by developing a code from piano notes that helped them communicate w/each other.. the enemy never figured it out. Read her story.

[pkpapers]

A perfect portrait of the "empowered" feminist ideal. A sociopath.