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The Talkers
operators and superintend the building of sets and of sound-proof stages for dialog and synchronized pictures.
They also devise methods for reproducing certain sounds such as the chugging of a train, the whir of an aeroplane, etc. These engineers are highly trained technicians devoting most of their time to research work.
The Sound Technician (called technical assistant) sits, tele' phone in hand, at the director's side. When the director is ready to "shoot" a scene, the sound technician places the microphones near the players and telephones his instructions to the different parts of the system to start the recording and camera motors. When he calls "Interlock," the system is functioning perfectly. The director waves his hand or presses a button and the players start the action and dialog of the screen.
The Monitor Man, called the "mixer," sits in a sound-proof box which has a glass front. He watches the action of the scene through this glass, and wears earphones through which he hears every sound made on the set. He operates dials which control the modulation of the voices, increasing the volume of some and reducing the volume of others.
He is the uncrowned king of dialog pictures, because he actually blends the various voices so that they will be of practically the same volume.
The Wax Room Operators work in a sound-proof room where the large wax discs and rolls of recording film receive the sounds and voices from the set. They operate the motors of the recording apparatus and the camera motors, so that these motors work simultaneously. Usually there are two wax room operators in a recording room.
"THE SINGING SCREEN"
New York's "Tin Pan Alley" has moved to Hollywood — strum, strum, strum, plink, plink, plink, da-da-di-da — "get this harmony, Bill," fills the air. Numerous pianos are in every studio and the theme-song writers are the "Princes of Screenland."
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