Amateur talking pictures and recording (1933)

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198 AMATEUR TALKING PICTURES mm. film. Is it, therefore, impossible to put a sound track on 9 mm. film? Mr. Will Day, pioneer of the industry, and one of the best Fig. 85. Western Electric Portable Projector known figures in the cinematograph world to-day, says that not only is it possible — it is not difficult. When you examine a strip of 9-5 mm. film it seems impossible that a sound track could be produced thereon. But in the Day system the axis of the sound recording is swivelled round. The idea of this can best be seen by the illustrations in Fig. 88.