The Picture Show Annual (1937)

Page scan 00052 from The Picture Show Annual

Record Details:

Title:
The Picture Show Annual
Date:
1937
Author:
Amalgamated Press, Ltd.
Publisher:
London, Amalgamated Press, Ltd.
Volume:
Picture Show Annual (1937)
Leaf #:
00052
Language:
English
Collection:
Year Book, Global Cinema, and United Kingdom
Format:
Annuals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
January 01, 1000
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Above: Lily Pons, the French soprano it is up to the Screen to Give them Pictures Worth Acting in. [T is eight years since we heard the first voice speak ing on the screen — in 1928. Those eight years have seen the most astounding advance in the science of the mechanical reproduction of sounds of all kinds— especially in relation to its synchronisation with movement. The original method of reproducing sounds on wax discs, electrically amplified to the required volume, has been superseded by the sound-on-film method. This is divided into two classes—variable density and variable area being the way of reproducing sound vibrations translated into light rays by a photo-electric cell. The greatest advance is in the reproduction of the human voice. And the strongest argument that can be advanced to support the statement is the number of famous opera singers whose mechanically repro- duced voices have been heard in film theatres. Operatic voices put the sensitive microphone to the most stringent test imaginable. The superb breath control makes them capable of singing almost inaudibly or with sufficient volume to fill the Albert Hall without losing any of their purity or sweetness of tone. Three years ago the results were disappointing, so far as the artistic side was concerned, although 48