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

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Record Details:

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 #:
000245
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
Description:
Date Added:
August 22, 2024
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THE STUDIO 221 cellent advantages, I am even more moved by another, a wider prospect. The new power is more than a power. It is a challenge and an obligation. We shall not, I am sure, be content with what it pours into our waiting arms. We must rise to its potentialities, develop them to their utmost. Just as the moving picture offered a director the chance, in the fadeout and the close-up, to bring a character closer by revealing the inner thoughts and fancies, so sound offers him the gift of revealing thoughts. A play like Strange Interlude, for example, may prove more suited to mechanical than to personal methods of production. Art often acts the seer in this way — pointing the road that science is to create. So sound may redouble our resources not merely in the sort of response it arouses in audiences, but in the sort of matter it conveys to them. To create will therefore mean to discover and to invent a technique strictly arising from the nature of the process. Here is the real business of production. I have every faith that we shall once again rise to the achievement.