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854 BANQUET SPEECHES [J. S. M. P. E.
one. The difficulty involved is to produce release prints which are replicas of the best print which the original picture and sound negatives are capable of giving. To an impartial observer it would appear that the quality of the sound in the case of release prints, in many cases, is not equal to that of the first print produced in Hollywood. A second striking observation to the Hollywood visitor is the recent great improvement in laboratory equipment and the meticulous care with which the equipment is constructed and maintained.
But the quality of the product largely reflects the quality of the man-power which produces it. In Hollywood there is a spirit of cooperation and friendly rivalry to produce the best motion pictures possible. It is highly important that the eastern technicians cooperate to the utmost not only with themselves but with the technicians in Hollywood; otherwise, I predict that Hollywood will not only be the center of production but of laboratory processing as well.
But what will be the next outstanding technical development of the industry? Color is the only immediately available variant from the prevailing black-and-white picture. It has little box-office value at present because the public thinks of colored pictures in terms of some of the wretched ones which it has already seen. You have seen some excellent examples of colored motion pictures during our Convention which were adequately sharply defined, and when similar films are generally, available, the public will undoubtedly register its appreciation.
The next innovation will probably consist of the imparting of depth both to picture and sound. Demonstrations at our Convention have indicated that the possibility of securing stereoscopic motion pictures without the use of auxiliary devices is not as remote as we had previously supposed, while in the case of many of the scenes of the color pictures referred to above, the color imparted a surprising degree of semblance of depth to the picture.
It would also be possible to secure startlingly entertaining and amusing effects by the use of devices which would permit binaural reproduction, whereby an independent sound record is transmitted to each ear. This would necessitate the use of multiple sound tracks on the film and independent reproducing channels leading to ear phones which the audience would undoubtedly tolerate for short presentations. The effect of a person whispering in the ear can be simulated with startling fidelity and such effects, judiciously combined