Amateur talking pictures and recording (1933)

Record Details:

Title:
Amateur talking pictures and recording
Date:
1933
Publisher:
London : Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd.
Volume:
Amateur talking pictures and recording
Leaf #:
0009
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion Picture Technology
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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PREFACE Cinematography has established itself as a hobby. Professionally the talking picture has ousted the silent. Combine the two statements and the object of this book appears. The ordinary gramophone is out of date, radio is almost commonplace, and television is somewhere in the future. The home talking picture might well fill the gap. Many people are not aware that the home talking picture is already with us. and that scores of firms both in America and Great Britain have produced equipments, some expensive and some cheap. In Chapter X is described one very promising system which might, if properly developed, place the home talkie in a million homes at an initial cost less than radio. Home recording is naturally closely related to talking pictures. It is given first place in this book for clearness of exposition. While a number of talking picture equipments are described in the following pages, they must not be thought the only ones. Obtaining data for a relatively new hobby means a considerable amount of experimental work if the field is to be treated fairly. Most of the British sets described have been tested personally, and in one instance involved the use of a studio for some weeks. I have to thank those companies mentioned beneath the illustrations and in the text both for the photographs and for the help they have afforded. Besides these I wish to expre>> my gratitude to: Merritt Crawford, Esq., D. A.Trafton. Esq.. Herman A. DeVry, Esq.,