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34 SOUND MOTION PICTURES
organization plans to interest itself in electrical entertainment of every type, including not only the sound motion picture and radio, but phonography as well. The huge resources of the organization, together with its fine man power, make it a unit to be reckoned with within the industry. Its entry into the motion picture field should help stimulate those already in it and should result in benefit to all.
There are several other reproducing devices being marketed at this time. It is not by any means the purpose of the writer to depreciate their importance by making no reference to them here. This chapter is intended to record only the progress of the organizations that have made certain contributions in connection with sound synchronization during the current, introductory period. Should the occasion present itself in a further portion of the text, I shall of course acquaint the reader more fully with the varieties of devices available.
Meanwhile, I pause for a moment to cast a retrospective eye over the two chapters that constitute the historical background of sound. First came the comparatively long period — actually but a generation — during which the inventors grappled with the problem of perfecting the means to the end. Then came the anxious months of doubt and hesitancy, then the success, and now we are borne ahead by the swift wheels of progress.
In the first chapter I referred only to the earlier apparatus. I have purposely refrained from detailed description of the mechanisms now in use, for I feared that the detailed exposition required might slow the pace of my story. Now, however, it is told; and I am free to lay before the reader an accurate explanation of the processes which are giving sound pictures to present-day audiences in presentday theatres.