Sound motion pictures : from the laboratory to their presentation (1929)

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Title:
Sound motion pictures : from the laboratory to their presentation
Date:
1929
Publisher:
Garden City : Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.
Volume:
Sound motion pictures : from the laboratory to their presentation
Leaf #:
000217
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Technology
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
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Date Added:
August 22, 2024
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CHAPTER VIII THE STUDIO I. Technique in Manufacture It might have been more logical to begin this text from the point of view of production rather than operation. However, the advantages of procedure according to logic are dubious in an exposition of the kind that is attempted in this book. Frankly, my purpose in the preceding chapters has been to establish a grasp with the subject for the majority of my readers. In explaining the new phenomenon where most of us have met it, or can meet it most readily, I trust that I have gratified a curiosity as to the whys and hows of sound right where it is exhibited. To stop here, however, would defeat many purposes. The inquiring spirit can scarcely be satisfied with an account of the mere externals of the matter. Even the layman must wish to comprehend what lies behind the immediate business of showing sound pictures in an auditorium. As for the manager, he must take the further step. It is not merely desirable for him to do so — it is imperative. He cannot yet leave the understanding of so new a phenomenon to paid technicians, for the simple reason that the connection between production and exhibition of sound pictures is much more intimate than in the case of silent ones. One of the themes I have to present is that producers now are obliged to anticipate theatre conditions more than ever. By the same token I hope to demonstrate that the operator, cut off from the knowledge of recent technique in manufac 197