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SOUND TECHNIQUE 237
improvements are being made are far too complicated to discuss here. But we may say from our own personal knowledge of the improved technique now being used in sound recording that much greater artistry of sound reproduction will be heard in all the motion picture theaters within the next few months. Sound recording and reproduction in motion pictures is now in a much more advanced stage than at the corresponding period in the development of the phonograph, and promises to progress as rapidly toward perfection as unlimited capital and tremendous popular interest can guarantee.
A great deal of the perfection of sound reproduction depends upon the type of loud speaker used by the theater exhibitor and upon the placing of these loud speakers with respect to the screen. In small motion picture theaters in which the sound equipment is necessarily of an inexpensive variety, only one or two loud speakers can be used. These are usually placed near the top of the screen, directed downward at such an angle as to give the best illusion of sounds emanating from the mouths of the actors on the screen. With more expensive sound equipment, however, any number of loud speakers may be used, and experiments in placing these in various parts of the auditorium are now being tried. It is even possible to make separate sound tracks for orchestration and for dialogue.
The loud speakers for orchestration can then be placed in the orchestra pit of the theater, so that the orchestra numbers are heard just as they used to be in the legitimate theaters when the orchestra sat in front of the stage, while the dialogue is heard coming from the mouths of the speakers on the screen.