We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
SOUND PERSONNEL AND ORGANIZATION 339
cover such functions as recording; installation, test, and maintenance of equipment ; laboratory control in so far as sound track is involved ; a certain amount of apparatus development work, the extent varying with different studios ; and frequently projection. In one company the same technical executive directs both the camera and sound departments. The advantages of such a unification may bring about its wider application, unless it should prove too difficult to find men willing and able to tackle the problems of both picture and sound recording.
MUST MERIT CONFIDENCE
Generally the sound director is an engineer by origin, but the successful handling of his job calls for many qualities not always acquired in the course of an engineering career. He cannot judge the ultimate value of his product unless he has a critical appreciation of quality in speech and music. He must be able to translate technical verbiage into concise English, since most of his contacts are with other technical branches or with non-technical executives. At the same time he should be familiar with the nomenclature and at least the fundamentals of technique in the branches of the business allied with his: photography, cutting, etc. He should have a wide acquaintance among the technical men in his field, so that he will be in a position to add to his staff the best men the market affords at the price he can pay. He must meet the indispensable administrative requirement of being a good judge of human nature and meriting the confidence of his men. There is only one way to acquire and retain that confidence, which is the foundation of organization morale : subordinates must feel that, while the head of the department will exact work and progress on the part of the staff commensurate with the constantly rising standards of the art, he will also see to it that they get their share of the rewards of such progress, and that he will defend them resolutely against unjust attacks, to which a technician in a rapidly developing art is peculiarly exposed.
Recording is under the superintendence of a Recording Supervisor, whose subordinates carry on the actual work of transferring sound from air to film. The recording supervisor requires essentially the same qualifications as the director of recording, within the scope, at least, of operational problems. He must exercise careful judgment in assigning personnel to the par