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30 SOUND MOTION PICTURES
demonstrated that the addition of sound was a practical and successful adjunct to the motion picture, and was an embellishment that promised well for the future. Cecil B. DeMille, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer producer, who has achieved great prominence in the production of silent pictures, made as his first production with ioo per cent, dialogue a story called Dynamite.
In turn, the Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation organized a technical department that made a complete survey and study of sound synchronization. This resulted in the production of sound motion pictures which compared with the high quality type of motion pictures produced by that organization. The first Paramount picture that used sound was Warming Up, a Richard Dix offering that had been completed in its silent version. In its initial experiments with sound Paramount was content merely to add effects to that production. The first picture with complete dialogue was a screen version of Interference, which was shown simultaneously at the Criterion Theatre, New York, and the Fox-Carthay Circle Theatre, Los Angeles. This production was well received by the critics and had all the ingredients necessary to present a play with practically the same convincing fidelity it had enjoyed on the stage. Soon afterward Paramount released The Doctor's Secret, another stage play, and other productions that met with public favour, including The Wolf of Wall Street, The Canary Murder Case, Close Harmony, and others. It may be of interest to note here that the Paramount organization produced practically all of these pictures on an improvised sound stage, " shooting" many of the scenes during the night to obviate the intrusion of outside disturbances.
The United Artists Corporation, at the outset, introduced sound in several of its productions through the medium of musical accompaniment. The first photoplay