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 #:
000386
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:
May 16, 2024
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312 THE FILM FINDS ITS TONGUE and one that gave the producers considerable pause, was the question of foreign sales. More and more, in late years, they had been depending on foreign sales for their income. They figured that U. S. sales paid expenses and broke even, but that the profits came from abroad. The Talkie, of course, was no good for foreign consumption. Even in England, where the audience could understand the speech, they objected to its American intonations, although this objection was mostly based on The Terror, which was supposed to be laid in England, and which was cast with only one English accent in the company! It is said that England met The Singing Fool with open arms and took back a great many of its former objections to the talkie. But if American producers began making nothing but talking pictures, what would they do on the continent? For the moment the only answer to this was to make silent versions of their pictures, as well. Warner had always made a silent version as well as a talkie, there being only a hundred or so theatres in which talkies could be shown. The silent picture was made separately from the talkie. As a matter of fact the early