The film finds its tongue (1929)

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Record Details:

Title:
The film finds its tongue
Date:
1929
Publisher:
New York : G. P. Putnam’s Sons
Volume:
The film finds its tongue
Leaf #:
00070
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion Picture Technology
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 02, 2025
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48 THE FILM FINDS ITS TONGUE synchronization was good and the quality of the sound was startingly realistic. Sam felt that he was seeing something destined to have a great future. He wanted it. He wanted it badly — just as years before he had wanted the first motion picture projector he had ever seen, at the amusement park near Sandusky. Now, as then, it was a question of interesting his brother, Harry. Harry, deep in expansion and problems of finance, was a stumbling block. Sam knew what Harry's reaction to mention of a talking picture would be. He was right. Harry refused to consider it. If there had been one lesson learned by motion picture men during the past twenty years it was that dabbling with talking pictures was the surest possible way to ruin. Harry would not even go and see a demonstration. Sam and Levinson then took another tack. Ostensibly for social purposes, a meeting was arranged between the Western Electric and Bell Telephone officials and Harry, Albert and Sam Warner. It was understood that the meeting was to have nothing to do with talking pictures. But when all the parties were gotten