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THE COMING OF SOUND 15
picture projector, and all who have the future of sound at heart will recognize this fact. It is the opinion of the present writer that in the final analysis the machines that do not allow for interchangeability will eventually lose their market.
In due time the different types of sound apparatus will most likely be reduced in number to those few which are fostered by organizations that have the resources as well as the better type of equipment. Surely there appears little doubt that interchangeability of such equipment will be one of the conditions under which it will be possible for them to exist. Though the manufacturers of the machinery may not entirely agree at this time, it will be found that in the long run the only thing that will count in sound motion pictures will be the picture itself, and not the specific apparatus which is used. Shakespeare summed it up when he wrote "the play's the thing," and his judgment has been right through all the ages in the history of the theatre. We have no reason to believe that the future will prove him wrong. It is likely that, in the long run, patent infringement suits will establish a limited and standardized equipment.
Thus science seems to have done its part. Now it remains for those within the industry to foster our latest development, made possible because of the recent new medium of creative expression. What, in the simplest terms, does the medium amount to? This: we have open to us another sense; we are permitted to exploit an additional power of the human being. For more than a quarter of a century we have wielded an instrument of amazing potency to charm the mind through the eye. We have cast shadows on a screen, and the millions have come to laugh, to weep, to learn, as at the command of magic. Since every normal eye sees what it sees, our phantom speech has become universal language. That the ability to play upon one of the