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 #:
000387
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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TRIUMPH 313 pictures were all made silent, and then talking sequences were made afterwards and cut in. These silent versions were scored, and thus were available for foreign use with ' ' sound. ' ' The thing to be feared was that foreign producers would start making dialogue pictures, thus taking the play from the Americans and getting entire control of the foreign market. If this should happen it seemed that nothing much could be done about it. It was considered impracticable for any American company to make pictures in foreign language in the United States. The alternative was the possibility of forming foreign subsidiaries which would acquire the rights to stories, etc., and which would cast the picture and film it abroad for the foreign trade. For the moment these were questions that could not be worried about. It was much more important to get it on the American market, which had gone absolutely talkie and which promised to pour out enough money to make up for any amount of foreign losses. It was the dawn of a new era in amusement. In this year, 1929, the talkie is here, and here for the rest of the century. It has followed the