The film finds its tongue (1929)

Record Details:

Title:
The film finds its tongue
Date:
1929
Publisher:
New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Volume:
The film finds its tongue
Leaf #:
00026
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion Picture Technology
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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io THE FILM FINDS ITS TONGUE ment. If, on the other hand, it were praised, the rewards would be prodigious. It is only fair to say that there had been a special showing on August 4th, for all those who had been engaged on the picture. The Warners and their associates seeing the performance had been almost startled at what they had wrought; it was so much more than they had conceived. The next night, August 5th, there had been a similar showing for the personnel of Western Electric and the Bell Laboratories who had worked at the electrical end. They, too, had been impressed. But on the night of August 6th, when for the first time the Warner Theatre opened its doors to admit the general public to this newest twentieth century amusement, there were many anxieties, large and small, in the breasts of those interested. To the four men the night was fraught with apprehension. Over $2,000,000 in money had been paid out or lay in commitments behind this one performance, quite apart from the fortune that was tied up in the Barrymore Don Juan picture. Even in a