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SOUND PERSONNEL AND ORGANIZATION 345
graphic specialists are therefore found on the staff of every adequately organized sound department, and a routine of test strip preparation to indicate optimum conditions of development is carefuly maintained.
CENTRALIZED INSTALLATION
As shown in Fig. 2, recording organization is in general somewhat more elaborate where a central power, amplifier, and recording installation is used instead of portable units. The centralized scheme usually results in increased specialization. The Chief Mixer, corresponding to the Recording Supervisor of Fig. 1 , does not have jurisdiction over the final step of engraving on wax or exposing film. These functions, instead, constitute part of the responsibility of a Chief Transmission Engineer, who is concerned with the operation of the plant, exclusive only of the stage, and its maintenance throughout. Alternatively, the mixers may also be under the control of the chief transmission engineer, who then becomes an assistant to the recording director in the immediate vertical line below the latter. With the addition of disc recording, also, various supplementary functions enter the organization picture, e.g., wax shaving, laboratory processing of discs, etc. The latter, added in Fig. 2 as merely a single line, is of paramount importance in those companies which release principally on disc and have their own pressing plants. These would really require another organization chart for complete treatment, which need not be included, however, in a general paper.
TOO MANY APPLICANTS
Before closing the subject, I should like to invite attention to an economic phase of the sound problem which is of foremost interest to many people outside of the industry.
Any sound executive's mail reflects a great aspiration on the part of many radio and electrical technicians to get into the movies. This desire arises partly from the glamour of the business, partly from the publicity with which it is so richly endowed, and partly from the relatively high salaries which successful sound men command. Furthermore, there was an acute scarcity of sound men in Hollywood during the transition from silent to sound pictures, and the news of this El Dorado is still reverberating among the ambitious and the dissatisfied — unfor