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146 HARVARD BUSINESS REPORTS
sound picture entertainment which might bring serious injury to the development of all sound pictures. Nevertheless, while the company was convinced that sound on film would be the better system in the future and desired to protect its development in so far as consistent with various interests, it believed that many of the disc reproducing systems gave a reasonably high quality of reproduction, and that healthy competition between the two systems might be useful in the development of the sound picture as a successful product. It was the opinion of some executives in the industry, however, that the various interests should get together and decide upon one system for all. Otherwise, increased overhead in production, increased overhead in distribution, and a general working at cross purposes would result in irreparable damage to the progress of the industry.
Apparatus for the simultaneous synchronization of sound and motion pictures was of two types: sound on film, and sound on disc. The disc type was a duplication of the phonograph on a large scale. The moving picture machine was coupled to the disc turntable and run by the same motor. There was a starting point on the film and a starting point on the disc. The two had to start at the same time from these given points. In synchronizing a phonograph record with a motion picture projector or camera, various mechanisms were used. In some instances, the machine was geared or otherwise mechanically connected to the phonograph, while in other apparatus the projection machine was driven from the phonograph or from a common driving force through electrical connections, and timed either by various types of synchronized motors or by electrical escapements. In still other apparatus the phonograph and the projection machine were driven independently of each other and mechanisms were provided for indicating their relative speeds so that the operator might bring them into synchronism.
The film method had the sound imprinted on the film itself in the form of a sound track of about one-eighth inch in width, running along the side of the film between the sprocket holes and pictures. The sound was not recorded on the same spot as was the action, for the reason that, on account of mechanical requirements, the sound aperture was 20 frames ahead of the moving picture aperture through which the motion picture was projected on the screen.