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12 SOUND MOTION PICTURES
an entertainment of the widest possible scope. Decidedly, the great motion pictures are still to be produced. For one thing, directors will devote their best efforts toward securing the right touch in the tone and shading of speech. It seems likely, too, that the new mode of expression will bring to the screen new faces and personalities who, because of power or charm of voice, will lend themselves to a new device. Just as radio has developed a talent all its own, it is likely that sound motion pictures will call into service personalities recruited entirely apart from the stage or the motion picture.
At any rate, great progress has already been achieved in the making of pictures that have talking sequences even as compared with the crude efforts of a few months ago I
Technically, sound synchronization is in capable hands, and fundamentally it may well be said that the various devices have perfected the recording and amplification of voice and sound. It is to be expected that further improvements and betterments will come out of the laboratories of the electrical companies that are fostering these instruments. Up to the present stage it has been found that the most practical installations are those which are fostered by the Electrical Research Products, Incorporated, and the R. C. A.-Photophone. In addition to these, other devices, such as DeForest Photofilm and the Bristolphone, are making strides in placing machines in theatres. Some of these have merit and will find a place for themselves. Because of the fact that virtually 90 per cent, of the motion picture producers have committed themselves to the Electrical Research device, it is recognized that that apparatus has a big initial advantage. It is known that the Electrical Research company has a close association, through license grants, with such organizations as Fox Film Corporation, Warner Brothers, Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, First National, Universal, United