Richardson's handbook of projection (1930)

1196 HANDBOOK OF PROJECTION FOR study very, very carefully, before he makes final , decision. Non-synchronous equipment makes available only the music, songs, etc., recorded upon standard or special phonograph records, but with such equipment there is available to you all the vast libraries of records of the various phonograph record manufacturers, plus the now large and rapidly increasing stock of special records made especially for theatre work in connection with motion pictures. The exhibitor thus will be able to score his silent pictures with the very best music, or with music by the very best musicians, orchestras and singers of the entire earth, which may be selected and cued by his own theatre staff, or may be had already cued from any one of several services on a weekly payment basis, records supplied. Among the special records now available are those carrying almost every conceivable sound which would be indicated by the action in a motion picture, except, of course, synchronized speech, singing, etc. For example : a record may be had which contains, in separate recordings, with a clear space between each one, all plainly marked, the barking of dogs of various sorts, as, for example, a small fox terrier ; a great, shaggy Newfoundland, with records of various sorts of dogs between, so that when a dog appears in the picture and goes through the motions of barking, by selecting the proper sort of "bark," and carefully timing it, a very realistic effect may be produced. However, if the outfit be in the hands of a careless or unintelligent attendant a very absurd, ridiculous situation might be set up by having the dog bark when the pictured dog very evidently did not bark, or if the v^rong record be selected and a fox terrier or