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340 CINEMATOGRAPHIC ANNUAL
ticular associate producers, directors, and leading players with whom they will be able to get along best. The crew assigned to a given company usually consists of a First Recordist* and two Assistant Recordists, one of whom is on the stage while the other operates the recording machine proper. Fig. 3 shows the usual layout of the equipment and the positions of the personnel. The microphones are shown on the stage, whence the voice currents travel to the amplifier in a booth or sound truck, then to the recording machine immediately adjacent. If the machine is objectionably noisy, the booth may contain a partition separating the recorder proper from the amplifier and its associated monitoring speaker. The first recordist, who is in charge of the unit, is stationed in the room with the amplifier, the gain of which he adjusts himself. He also mixes the output of the microphones when several are used, and he has final responsibility for the placing of the transmitters. The two assistants are in continuous communication by telephone, with the first recordist on the line intermittently, or he may prefer to give his directions to the assistant directly, the latter then passing them on to the stage man. Where communication through intermediaries is unsatisfactory, the first recordist goes on the stage and contacts directly with the director or his assistants.
SOUND AND STORY
Another question on which opinions vary is the desirability of the sound man understanding something of story values, the technique of acting, and other elements of production somewhat remote from the transmission units and dynes per square centimeter which are naturally his first concern. One count in the blanket indictment brought against sound engineers by many picture people in the early struggles of adjustment, set forth that the sound technician was willing to sacrifice brilliant photography, vigorous action, and every other constituent of a good motion picture to get what he conceived to be good sound. Often enough the complaint was justified, as the early results show. On the other hand, one must learn to walk before one can run, and the utilization of natural distortion in recording, the introduction of "sound perspective," and the following of the action of a photo
*The term First Recordist is intended to correspond to First Cinematographer. Recordist, while open to some objections, is used to differentiate the man from the machine, which is called a recorder.