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Feb., 1930] THE HUMAN EQUATION IN PRODUCTION 221
semble the railroad business in terms of mileage and tonnage. We may recall that Mr. Thomas A. Edison's first motion picture camera was larger than a doghouse, and weighed about half a ton. It has less capacity for the same work than a five pound automatic camera of today.
Some of our troubles in the sound recording business bearing on personnel have their smiling aspects. In a sound track made by one of a fleet of camions assigned to an event in Washington, we found surprising sound resembling thunder and the sharp crash of lightning coming from a very clear sky, and disagreeably accompanying an otherwise pleasant bit of music. The resulting investigation revealed that the microphone man had been standing alongside his instrument, cracking peanuts while the event went on. That nickel's worth of peanuts was expensive for both the company and the employee.
One of the major problems of personnel reposes in the difficulty of convincing both engineers and recordists that they are engaged in an enterprise which is an art quite as much as it is an industry. While mechanical and electrical perfection are necessary they are not in themselves enough. There is no substitute for thinking and for that general assortment of common knowledge that the diverse problems of the work require.
A trivial case in point developed not long ago when we were engaged in making a sound interview with Chief Justice Taft. The microphone man had been cautioned to make notes for the subject report on each scene as it was shot. At the conclusion of the talking on this assignment, the young man dashed up and demanded, "Mr. Taft, now what is your first name and how do you spell it?"