The film finds its tongue (1929)

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 #:
000210
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
Description:
Date Added:
August 01, 2024
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1 66 THE FILM FINDS ITS TONGUE practical solution. The original Western apparatus had both its camera and the recording apparatus enclosed in a joint booth, connected together by a shaft and driven by a common motor with careful speed control. As this booth was mostly soundproof, the noise that was caught by the recording apparatus was not so much extraneous noise as that of the shafting connecting it with the camera. However, this idea of camera work and recording was absolutely impossible from a motion picture point of view. No picture in the world could be made with a camera as limited in action as that, a camera that must always remain in one place, at one height, and that had to have all the action brought directly in front of it. It might do for the laboratory; but never for practical film work. It would be too monotonous. The two had to be got separate. Thus the separate soundproof booth for the camera was worked out, and camera and recording apparatus were driven by synchronous motors, taking current from the same source. A booth was built about seven feet high, four feet deep and three feet wide, mounted on rubber