Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1928)

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Fox, the second big company to release sound pictures (which they have been experimenting with for twelve years), is more conservative. "We are making only short subjecj^ with the Moznetone at present," a studio official announces. "It's too early to experiment with it in features." First National has its Firnatone, Pathe its Photophone, United Artists its Unatone. Everyone talks learnedly of the difference in principle, the disk device, the film reproduction of sound. No one is quite ceitain what he is talking about. The disagreement over the new medium begins with the producers. "The talking motion pictures are the only possible future development of the films," says Jesse L. Lasky, "within a year most of our pictures will be synchronized with sound effects and dialogue." "It is not our purpose to rush headlong into sound production," shrugs Irving Thalberg. • "The importance of sound in pictures is too important to permit any use which will hamper its full expression," adds Nicholas Schenck, president of MetroGoldwyn. "We have no right to give the public experiments instead of finished products," says John McCormick. "What am I doing to prepare Colleen for this change? Nothing ! For picture screen personalities are the important things, and, up to date, few of the stage stars with trained voices have proved to have film faces. Talking pictures may be coming, and if so, we shall have to fall into step. But in two years I'm willing to wager that the public will be tired of them and will flock to see a silent movie." Among all the uncertainties, the fantastic theories and "wild rumors now flying about Hollywood, one thing is sure. If the talkies have come to stay, the entire in-i dustry has to be changed. Studio equipment, buildings, methods must be revolutionized. Experts in new lines will be needed to take the place of the present workers. Title writers will be replaced by dramatists, screen directors by stage directors. One De Mille Delighted ' I AM afraid," says Clarence Brown, "that this means the end of our motion pictures which we have been building up for so many years. If pictures have color, depth and sound added to them, what will they be but a hybrid stage?" "I am delighted," says William De Mille, while Brother Cecil remains silent. "It means the beginning of a new art, which will have its own forms and features. It will be neither pictures which talk or the stage which can be carried in a can, but a great new medium of drama." "Silent pictures will go one road, talking pictures another," says Murnau, "there will be two kinds of theater to suit two different tastes. But pictures as pantomine will always be the greater. And they will learn one good thing from the talkies : how to get along without subtitles." "Not all pictures will use spoken dialogue, and the ones that do will only use it in places, not throughout," says Tay Garnett, the youngest director. He is now finishing his maiden picture for Pathe. "In the first movies the actors seemed to think that because the screen could show motion they had to move continually. The first talkies do too much talking. You judge anything by its beginning." "It means — ruin!" cries another dire who requests to be unnamed. "We are pJi ing into the hands of the theater. We creating a taste for spoken plays. Tl stock companies and road shows will, their turn, drive the talkies from tl screen. The industry has gotie 'staj mad.' " The hystisria of dissent is loudest an the stars themselves. "Eet is all foolishness," cries Pola N^ in the broken English that would bar from spoken pictures. "Eet is a fad,J curiosity. I do not think of it at Bah !" "It's nonsense to claim that talking pi tures will drive any star from the scree scoffs Conrad Nagel, first hero of a tall "the movie camera can make people casts in their eyes and crooked noses loci well. Why shouldn't the sound recordt^ be able to do as much for voices?" "Talking pictures? Splendid!" boon John Gilbert. "Talking pictures — terribh cries another star in a foreign accent. Musicians May Protest A HUNDRED difficulties confront the n« ■^ sound pictures at the very start. Wha about the contracts of the players whicl contain no clause about using their voices Will the musicians' union permit the Phila delphia Symphony on a movietone devic to take the place of ten thousand theate: orchestras? What about the foreign star with their broken English, and the manj' picture players whose voices are impossible' How can talkies in which the player; speak English be sold to France and Ger many and Japan ? The enthusiasts have answers for everything. Foreign stars will be taught tc speak their lines understandably, or they will have voice doubles. New contracts will be made for the new industry. As for the foreign releases — they grow almost incoherent with excitement. The talkies will make English the universal language! The stars will learn Esperanto ! The whole world will speak the same tongue I The talkies will bring about the Brotherhood of Man. Everyone argues at once. The talking movies will be too expensive to make. The cost of the projection-machines will prohibit them except in small theaters. The talking movies will cost only twelve thousand more than the silent pictures. The talking movies will be cheaper. They will slow the action down. They will save footage and speed the action up. Everyone is going to lose his job. Nobody is going to lose his job. They're the greatest thing that ever happened to the pictures. They're the worst. I hear. They say, Wait and see. They will, They won't, — are-aren't. As I write, a wild-eyed scenario writer rushes into the office, clutches my arm and gasps that he has discovered the RE.A.L TRUTH, the ABSOLUTE LOWDOWN about the talkies. They are to be just a step in the process of radioing the movies over the air into people's homes, where eventually they will be able to see and hear their favorites of the screen while darning the family socks and sitting in slippered ease. It is, it seems, just a gigantic conspiracy to keep people home evenings. Yes, Hollywood is having hysterics ! I feel rather hysterical myself. 68