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Feb., 1930] ART AND SCIENCE IN SOUND FlLM 179
and the inclusion of effects which occur as afterthoughts; and it insures the valuable original negative against the damage it always incurs in the printing room.
It is believed that equipment for dubbing will be vastly improved during the coming year, and that development will be hastened by efficient use of the equipment now available. It is probable that the ultimate dubbing machine will bear no resemblance to the dummy projectors now being used, but will consist of an associated group of sound pick-ups mounted on a panel, with faders, filters, amplifiers, etc., arranged for easy connection thereto. A device somewhat like the present printer light-shift, actuated by notches in the film, will determine which particular records are to be picked up at any given time. Fader settings and filters can be similarly cut in. If the driving motor is capable of being interlocked with a picture projector, it will be possible to determine by projection exactly the effects to be secured on the dubbed record. These effects can be decided upon by the picture director, the editor, or by conference, before any actual re-recording is undertaken.
Seven million Americans walked up to motion picture theater box offices yesterday, and paid the price of admission. Today, and each tomorrow, holds the prospect of similar parades. But they enter those doors not for the purpose of seeing realistic presentations of their own lives — they seek relief from reality. But the presentations must be masked to pass for reality, upon the acceptance of the premises laid down by author, actor, and producer. The more sophisticated the mind of the viewer, the greater the task becomes, for the practiced eye detects the sham behind the mask, unless art has functioned well indeed.