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How to add sound to amateur films (1954)

Record Details:

Title:
How to add sound to amateur films
Date:
1954
Publisher:
London : Focal Press
Volume:
How to add sound to amateur films
Leaf #:
00054
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:
March 28, 2024
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timing by cutting out a few inches of tape, or splicing some in. With stripe you cannot do this. Magnetic stripe is eminently suitable for fairly straightforward sound, music or commentary. But when you want to record complicated effects with accurate timing, there are difficulties. These you can overcome with patience or with a tape recorder. Projectors designed for magnetic stripe invariably include facilities for recording as well as playback. So if you are going to lend your film to strangers, you run a risk of their accidentally erasing the sound. They might even replace it with a facetious commentary of their own. If you have spent a long time preparing the sound this will be exasperating. If you have made a film with lip-synchronised speech its erasure will be calamitous. For such purposes an optical sound track is the better choice. 50