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COMMENTS ON PRODUCTION 227
merit standards of the entire industry, has sprinkled a few blunders among many excellent discoveries.
Every producer has accepted sound as essential in the making of pictures at the present time. The first chorus of adverse critics based their opinion of the future of sound on its current offerings. Since then a reassuring number of pictures have proved notably successful, not only at the box office, but as real contributions to the motion picture art. These productions are but an indication of the possibilities of the development that is still to come. We within the industry who possess imagination and vision see in sound the development of a new technique affording greater realism and entertainment for the screen. Surely it is to be expected that the introduction of sound will make more rapid strides in this modern day of achievement than the motion picture itself did when it first came on the screen and into an economic era now antiquated.
It is the belief of the present writer, for one, that sound will continue to play a very important part in the motion picture industry, and that eventually the use of sound will entirely change our present methods of picture making. Such changes as will occur will be gradual and will be assimilated in the same measure that progress assimilates the best in the old to the best in the new. There is enough ability in the laboratory and engineering divisions of the great electrical companies to eliminate any mechanical defect that now exists, in both the recording and the reproducing of sound. What remains to be accomplished beyond that is trivial. When recording and reproducing equipment are improved, just as radio equipment was improved, the real progress in sound pictures will come from the production brains of the industry.
In the early days of the motion picture itself there were those who felt that photoplays were a fad that had no future and that the business would revert to the primitive