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MOTION
HERALD
Al Boasberg
Radio writer and director
William Johnson
Heads electrical department
Marquis de la Falaise
Director of French versions
Louis A. Sareclty
Assistant vice president of Radio Pictures
RADIO STUDIO PERSONNEL
\Sound Stresses Need Of Technical Experts
Pearl Eaton
Director of dances for RKO
Ernest Bachrach
Head of portrait and stills
Max Ree
Art director for Radio_ productions
Harry Tierney
Composer of operettas of RKO productions ■
Holt Lindsley
Head of scenic department
Basil Deane
l^roduction head, Radio Pictures. Ltd.
Major Fairbanks
Sttidio superintendent for RKO. Hollyxvood
C. D. White
General RKO studio manager
Dave Strumff
In charge of art for announcement
Pandro Berman
Assistant to William LeBaron
Larry Darmour
Short subject producer for Radio program
Now that the motion picture has become mechanized through the talkies, sound and engineering branches of the industry have been assuming a greater importance in the sphere of production.
One of the most important single phases of production during the current era of talking pictures is the extent to which technical skill and invention are employed in reproducing the voice.
It is common know-ledge that such great engineering institutions as Radio Corporation of America, Western Electric, General Electric Company and Westinghouse Company and others conduct costly research laboratories in the investigation of new possibilities.
Likewise have the motion picture companies had their experimental laboratories in constant operation as among the most complete and ingenious in any industry.
"The technical branches," according to experts in the Radio experimental laboratory, "are of more than passing interest, because upon them depend the future of sound films in relation to more faithful reproductions of voice articulations and the realistic capturing of confidential tones such as breathing, sighing and whispering, and the elimination of annoying 'frying' noises.
Life of Film Lengthened
■'Of vital interest to the patrons and oW'Uers of theatres is the attempt to perfect
the film itself. In this respect Radio Pictures, when its process it finally applied, will hav^ an important scientific step in the industry. Under a new method of treatment, developing and printing, the studio's laboratory has hit upon a means to prolong the life of film three-fold and to make it more susceptible to photographic images.
Radio's New Laboratory
In order to make this process applicable to its product within the next few months, the studio has launched the construction of a great developing and printing laboratory.
'"It is apparent that there must be considerable romance in this constant search for improvements which will reflect themselves in better motion pictures. And there is. In its romantic aspects, technical branches dramatize the most complicated of electrical and mechanical engineering problems into terms of entertainment.
"It isn't merely a matter of chasing electrons, or tracing the electrical flow through resistances, chokes, transformers and tubes and mixing it with voice vibrations to resemble human tonalities. The aim of our sound department is to recreate the subtle phrasings of the voice and make them part and parcel of the dramatic moti\ ation.
"To do this, an electrical engineer must have an inventor's vision, a dramatist's {Continued on page 69)
Carl Dreher
Director sound department
Harold Hendee
Head of research department
Ernest Westmore
Head of makeup department
Leon D'usseau
Head of silent ana foreign versions
Henry Hobart
Of the production stair at Radio studio
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Sann Comer
Head of properly department
Frank Vert
Decorative features on sets
Rex Bailey
Casting director at Radio studio
Betram Millhauser
Associate producer of RKO
Don Jahrus Head of miniature department
Lou Ransome
of the production department
Earl McMurtrie
Construction superintendent
Hen-b Hirst
In charge of location for Radio
Lloyd Knechtei
Head of photographic effects
Myles Connolly
Supervisor of RKO productions
William Englinton Chief of camera difstoi. of Radw