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CHAPTER I
THE COMING OF SOUND
Sound, to the motion picture public, is a new thing. To the leaders of the industry it is not. I am referring now not only to the recent period during which commercial sound pictures were being prepared, previously to showing or even advance notice, but to the much longer period during which inventors and technical companies were grappling with the special problems of the dream which is at last a reality. Every step of the struggle was known to those of us who knew the need of following it. Occupied though we were with another and a gigantic task — the development of the moving picture from a "store show" to the rank of fourth in the nation's industries — we nevertheless had eyes and minds to follow the beginnings of the next phase of our calling. Therefore, when that phase reached the point of practicability there were hands ready to welcome it. It is indeed with real pride that I recall, from my earlier work, Motion Picture Theatre Management, the confident prediction for the new movement, that it would go into realization with swift strides. It has done so, beyond denial; and I venture to supplement that earlier forecast with this — that it has come to stay.
Now, one result of watching the advance of sound in its obscure preparatory days has been that the industry was ready to accept and adapt it as soon as the proper moment arrived. As you see, the moving picture is a modern industry, not only in being contemporary, but in conducting its business along the most enlightened and up-to-date