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COMMENTS ON PRODUCTION 223
industry quickly adapted themselves to the new conditions brought about in the introduction of sound in the making of motion pictures, the progress that has been made in that connection is nothing short of remarkable. What is more, great technical improvement will continue to be achieved. Virtually every important producing company has to its credit several talking or sound motion pictures that have registered marked advance over predecessors, considering the short time since sound was accepted by those within the industry. And it is well for the future of sound that the new art was accepted by men and women who recognized its possibilities and who handled it with sympathy and understanding. The resources of the largest producing organizations, together with their best equipment, were placed at the disposal of pathfinders, and the results have proved satisfying and promise much for the future. Almost every studio has organized a research department to familiarize the technician with the recording apparatus and to make a complete study of the changes that may be required in production methods.
In this connection, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, an organization consisting of the principal producing companies, and the Association of Motion Picture Producers lent early and valuable aid. Every phase of production, including acting, directing, writing, photography, and engineering, was made the subject of penetrative research. Rapid strides were taken in acquainting the personnel of the industry — the directors, the players, the writers, the technicians, the camera men — with the new form. Those in the production branch of the business realized that the future was in their hands, and that if there was to develop a lasting art the efforts made at the production centre would finally determine the destiny of sound in connection with the motion picture.
The introduction of sound, other than that by Warner