Motion Picture Classic (Jan-Jun 1929)

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GREAT f NAMES Y J^io/teercnc/ ficiv art BELL Telephone Laboratories . . . Western Electric . . . leading motion picture producers . . . progressive exhibitors . . . bring to you Sound Pictures! Calling upon fifty years' experience in the telephone art, Western F^lectric pro<luced the first practical system (used by Vitaphone and Movietone) for recording and reproducing Sound Pictures. Producers have standardized on Western Electric equipment and are successfully Westerrk SOUND meeting the technical difficulties natural to a new and revolutionary art. Discriminating exhibitors, eager to provide the best in entertainment, have installed the Western Electric Sound System. The success of Sound Pictures is history now. Continuing progress is certain. Make sure of enjoying it. Go to the theatres showing these great producers' pictures with the sound equipment recognized as the world's standard. ^tectric SYSTEM ANp/^ loorlds leadL makors of * "W TransAtlantic Telephone Equipment Public Address Systems