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28 SOUND MOTION PICTURES
tendance, are likewise part of this studio. Other buildings include police and fire departments. To add a crowning touch, the grounds are splendidly landscaped.
The Fox Movietone City was planned and erected under the direction of Mr. Sheehan, with C. H. Mulldorfer as architect and H. Keith Weeks as Chief Construction Engineer. The studio was dedicated on September 28, 1928. The Rev. Neal Dodd, pastor of the Little Church Around the Corner, and beloved of the film colony, gave the invocation, and Dr. Isadore Isaacson of the Hollywood Temple of Israel, and Rev. Father Joseph Sullivan, president of the Loyola University, spoke briefly. The completed studio stands as a monument to the faith of William Fox and Winfield Sheehan, who, because of their enterprise, are well equipped to face the future of the new development in the motion picture industry.
IV. Other Movietone Schedules
During the early months of the progress that was being made by Vitaphone and Movietone, as can be readily expected, the other important producing organizations made close study of the possibilities of sound, using the facilities of the Hays organization for a complete investigation of both the Western Electric system and what was then known as the General Electric system of sound recording and reproducing. After weighing the considerations offered by both systems, as well as considering the conditions imposed by those who controlled the devices, such organizations as the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation, Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, United Artists Corporation, First National Pictures, Incorporated, Universal Pictures Corporation, and a score of others, adopted the Western Electric sound system.
In May, 1928, these companies identified themselves