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SOUND PERSONNEL AND ORGANIZATION 337
radio receiver factories ; public address installations ; phonograph recording studios, etc. Another executive recruited his entire sound personnel from the employees already on the lot, training them with the aid of engineers provided by the licensor of the recording equipment. He concedes that this course involved considerable delay in getting the department under way, but believes there will be compensations later. Since both of these companies are successfully producing sound pictures, the conclusion apparently is that a sound department, like most other enterprises, may be run on different theories, as long as there is some internal consistency in the carrying out of whatever scheme is selected, and certain general prerequisites of organization are not neglected.
We may now consider in some detail the organization of a sound department and the functions of the various employees, shown in the more or less typical schematic arrangement of Fig. 1. This is intended to apply to a lot which confines itself to recording on film, using mobile equipment which may be moved physically from one stage to another, so that all the apparatus is on or near the stage or location. This is in contradistinction to the system whereby the main amplifiers and the recording machines are centrally located and connected electrically to various pick-up points, movement from stage to stage, where required, being accomplished electrically. (See Fig. 2). Both systems are in extensive use and each presents certain advantages, but the organization of the sound department is somewhat affected by the choice of one or the other method.
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Another reservation with regard to the organization charts to be discussed is that any such scheme is a product of development, personalities, economic factors, and company policy, as much as a logical arrangement of men and functions. The greatest enemy of healthy business organization is the man who makes a fetish out of an organization diagram. Those who have learned this by experience will readily understand that any such scheme is subject to numerous modifications in practice.
Starting at the apex of Fig. 1, we have a Director of Sound, who may also be known by some such title as Chief Recording Engineer. He is essentially a department executive, in a position as much administrative as technical. His responsibilities