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AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER
December, 1924
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of conjecture, it nevertheless is granted to be more of a probability than a possibility. In fact, a current number of Science and Invention offers the prediction that such an invention will, in due course of time, be in as common use as the telephone and the radio are today.
Prediction
But just as authors like Jules Verne and others of bygone days, in sheer imaginative works, hit upon such common accomplishments of the present like like the submarine, etc., motion pictures oftimes evolve mechanically speculative themes which stand just as good a chance to materialize as Verne's undersea boat. Of this sort of motion picture is Universal's "Up the Ladder" which, recently completed, deals with a hero who has invented an arrangement whereby the speaker in a phone may see the person to whom he is talking. By a pure coincidence which he did not discover until he was given the script, Jackson J. Rose was assigned to film this story whose basic idea was strikingly similar to the one that he had hit upon some twelve years ago. The Universal production was directed by Ted Sloman, who was assisted by Tom McNamara, famous cartoonist, who was the "gag man" on the staff.
As difficult as might be the lot of the inventor who is endeavoring to bring the "mirrorphone" into actuality, that's just how difficult it is to make a "dummy" contraption of this sort show up in motion pictures. Of course every one knows that all that would be required of a "mirror-phone" in pictures would be just plain "acting" — for the purpose of fiction it
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