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THE GROWTH OF SOUND 33
Photophone Company, the General Electric Company, the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, and National Broadcasting Company.
In a statement, David Sarnoff, executive vice president and general manager of the Radio Corporation of America, declared :
Beyond our functions in the field of international and other telegraphic wireless communication, it is our business to develop sound reproduction through the latest of the arts of electrical communication, thus the electrical group has established a great nation-wide service of broadcasting in the United States; it has cooperated with the phonographic industry in the creation of new sound reproducing instruments; it has now come to the motion picture industry to cooperate in the development of the new art of sound motion pictures.
An affiliation was subsequently effected with the Pathe Exchange, Incorporated, which adopted the R. C. A.Photophone system of recording in the production of sound motion pictures. The first Pathe production shown with a musical synchronization was Captain Swagger with Rod La Rocque; and this was followed by several others in succession. It may be expected that before the year 1929 is completed these producing organizations will release several important contributions to the motion picture. The Pathe organization, in addition, has been releasing a talking news weekly recorded with the R. C. A.Photophone process.
Other organizations that became affiliated with R. C. A.Photophone at this time were Mack Sennett Studios, Educational Film Exchange, Incorporated, and TiffanyStahl Productions.
The acquisition of the Victor Talking Machine Company by the Radio Corporation is an indication that the