Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1953)

54 FEBRUARY 1953 ODDS AND ENDS: AUDIO DIVISION J^S any observant reader of this magazine should ^^^ know, we have tended to be during the past * year rather more enthusiastic than less con cerning the audio aspects of amateur movie making. Nevertheless, we should not like this impression to get out of balance. For there are, if one takes the time to analyze them, a number of audio odds and ends which seem to us interesting — and perhaps even significant. To wit: A quick run-down of our annual index for Movie Makers in 1952 shows that only eleven out of the sixty four major articles published were in any way related to sound. This figures out at 17 percent — scarcely an overweighted average to present to the readers of a magazine which, in its annual contest for amateur films, received from that same readership 54.6 percent of their entries with sound. However, taken in conjunction with the fact (already itemized in January) that 72.7 percent of the award winning films in our 1952 Ten Best con test used sound successfully, this statistic might seem to indicate that amateur audio was in the ascendency. But there are other facts and figures which do not bear this out. Again, to wit: The 72.7 percent among the winners who offered sound as well as cinematics was an increase in this category of only 3.5 percent over 1951 — surely nothing to get excited about. Furthermore, among the several score of 7zo«-winning entries, almost half of them (48.5%) presented sound with their pictures— but obviously to no avail. And furthermore again, 45 percent of these nonwinning but audioaccompanied aspirants employed optical or magnetic sound on film — systems which, because of their complexity or cost, are popularly supposed to be sure-fire in their effectiveness. Apparently, this simply isn't so. 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