The Picture Show Annual (1931)

Record Details:

Title:
The Picture Show Annual
Date:
1931
Author:
Amalgamated Press, Ltd.
Publisher:
London, Amalgamated Press, Ltd.
Volume:
The Picture Show Annual (1931)
Leaf #:
00058
Language:
English
Collection:
United Kingdom, Global Cinema, and Year Book
Format:
Annuals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
January 01, 1000
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50 Picture Show Annual provincial town. World-famous operatic singers don't appear in small towns, and for the average music lover it is a question of the next best thing, and that is music mechanically reproduced. One thing is certain—the phonograph, the wireless and the sound film have brought music to millions who would otherwise never have heard vocal and orchestral masterpieces. Few of us can have the best of anything, and the next best is better than nothing at all. Even if screen music at times fails badly, the same can also be said of original music. The greatest singers cannot do themselves justice in a hall where the acoustic properties are bad. I have paid big money to listen to an echo from a roof which distorted the voice of famous singers so much that the sound was a discord. The Cause of Bad Film Music. AND that is, more often than not, the cause of bad screen music. The theatre where the picture is being shown may be utterly unsuitable for the reproduction of sound. 1 he cinemas were built with a vie./ to the patrons seeing, not hearing, and few of the older theatres are capable, Bclou) : " Skeets " Gallagher, who made his film debut " silent," profited greatly by the talkies-