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THE STUDIO 199
Research Products, Incorporated, its subsidiary, has licensed its affiliated producers to use in their studios its apparatus for recording sound by both the disk method and the phonograph-on-film method, in which the sound is impressed on the edge of the film. These methods were developed in the Bell Telephone Laboratories and the FoxCase Laboratories. The equipment for both is manufactured by the Western Electric Company. Among the Western Electric affiliated producers are:
Fox Film Corporation
Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation
Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation
United Artists Corporation
First National Pictures, Incorporated
Universal Pictures Corporation
Hal Roach Studios, Incorporated
Christie Film Company
Columbia Pictures, Incorporated
Approximately sixty production channels or units are, at this writing, in operation in the production of sound pictures.
In the early stages of the movement makeshift studio stages were used, but experience in connection with these primitive productions has established the need for a standardized equipment and studios that have been adapted generally by leading producers.
The Fox Film Corporation has just completed a studio at Fox Hills, near Hollywood, California, which is the largest structure erected for the specific purpose of producing sound motion pictures (Plate III.) Although the Fox Film Studio is by far the most elaborate, Warner Brothers have built several additional Vitaphone stages. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corporation has com