Motion Picture Magazine (Aug 1928-Jan 1929)

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BROADCASTING MOVIES OF course, he is interested in the sound synchronization which is sweeping the movie industry more and more surely into the control of the great electrical companies which control the patents on sound devices. And, of course, he is interested in television, which will eventually hurl motion pictures through space, past all obstacles, through the walls of your home, onto the screen in the projection-room with which every dwelling will be equipped. You will tune in on whatever picture may be desired, just as you now select your entertainment over the radio. The apparatus will probably be rented and installed just as telephone service is now arranged. But to Brown these trivialities are just around the corner. They are so surely fixed within the realms of certainty, that little room remains for speculation. The day-dreams most enjoyed by this cinema seer carry him into far realms more strangely fantastic than imagination can conceive. Compared to his prophecies regarding the motion picture of the future, the wild flights of Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (since come true with the advent of submarines) or Poe's preposterous yarn of mad flight through the air (written only a historical moment before Lindbergh's birth) are as common as the morning's milk. The mind of the engineer, crammed with minute knowledge of mechanical mathematics, familiar with the phenomenon of electricity, understanding the operation of intricate natural laws unknown to the lay man, enables Brown to visualize uncanny achievements of the future which are, nevertheless, well within the realms of possibility — and probability, too. So well are these ideas in mind that they may be, and have been, tangibly expressed and given to the world for the first time through the medium of this magazine, in the form of photographic reproductions of oil paintings executed by Warren Newcombe, also a gazer toward tomorrow, and head of the special creative art department established at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios. The director of the future must indeed be a master mind, highly trained in a dozen highly technical professions. He must, for instance, be a painter thoroughly versed in every possible use, combination, value of color. He must be a musician cognizant of music and sound in all possible ramifications, competent to compose mighty melodies, able to express in music every varying mood. For, as is indicated in one of Newcombe's creations on canvas, the director will at one and the same time bring into being form, color, sound and action. Newcombe has shown this idea with a huge directorial hand in the foreground of his picture. Three digits are upraised, indicating the creation of form, color and sound. Naturally, there must be action in the picture. This is understood. Above the upraised hand may be seen Beauty half-created in the form of a nude. To one side a gigantic recording engine, which takes the place of the present camera, but imprisons color and sound as well as form, both propels and attracts the mysterious Z-rays which are yet awaiting discovery by man. The music, or sound, is not produced by visible means, but simply (or perhaps complexly) extracted from the ether. This, by the way, has already been done by a youthful inventor who produces music with the wave of a hand — and the help of a machine which would surely have (Continued on page 115) 112