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CINEMATOGRAPHIC ANNUAL
During one of the first pictures that was made with this technic, the studio people were coaxed into making the sets with sufficient reverberation to produce the depth effect. The set in question was about 25 or 30 feet wide and some 35 feet long and
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approximately 24 feet high, as shown in Fig, U. It represented a large hall in an old fashioned European home, and there was an entrance onto a stairway from a second story room at the back of the set. The dialogue was started in the middle foreground by a man at A, and then a young lady came out of the second story room at B, and said a few lines, the dialogue continuing until both people were at the foot of the stairs at F, midway back in the set. The studio people insisted on making a closeup and a long shot simultaneously, and as the long shot covered a considerable angle, it was impossible to get a microphone into the scene sufficiently near the young lady to take care of a sound track for her closeup at entrance. When the rushes were shown in the review room, the first to come thru was the long shot, and the result was exceedingly good, the voice appearing to come from the mouths of the speakers. The second rush showed the long shot scene with the closeup of the young lady cut in at the proper place. This picture, however, was coupled up with the only sound track available, namely, the long shot sound track. Of the five people in the review room, three unconsciously moved their heads to one side to