We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
THE GROWTH OF SOUND 23
evinced the benefits of these findings. It may be of interest to note that while Warner Brothers used players from the stage as well as the screen, they found in most cases that the players with motion picture experience were more adaptable to this new art because of their knowledge of motion picture technique; for while stage artists possessed something of an advantage in the reading of the lines, they did not always screen so well as the cinema player. On the other hand, as was only to be expected, the motion picture actor approached his new task with a certain timidity, which has been overcome in a measure, and will continue to be, with experience.
For these and other benefits Warner Brothers may be given due credit. They helped to establish the foundation on which the talking picture will continue to progress. That record is theirs — and one of which they may well be proud. Now let us see what others have added.
III. Movietone
About the same time that Warner Brothers became interested in the Western Electric system of sound, William Fox, president of the Fox Film Corporation, sensed the tremendous possibilities of the mechanism. He formed an alliance with Theodore W. Case, an inventor of standing, who had previously been associated with Dr. DeForest in some of his experimental work in developing Phonofilm. For more than four years Mr. Fox made available large sums of money in financing Movietone research work, in general experimentation, and in the perfecting of details. To this day the Fox-Case corporation is probably the only organization affiliated with a film-producing firm that maintains its own research laboratories for the development of new inventions for the motion picture industry. Among other researches, a considerable part of the practi