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

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ADVERTISING 267 The "Talkies" Are Coming! [or "Are Here!"] Titanic Talking Triumph! The [name of theatre] Screen Speaks — See It! Hear It! You Hear What You See! Poured from the Throat of the Screen to Add Sound to Your Eyes! A Silent Drama Endowed with Life! Our Screen Speaks [or Cheers or Laughs or Sings]! The Age-old Dream of Pictures that Speak Comes True! New Beauties for the Eye — New Delights for the Ear! Vitaphone [or Movietone] Presents Broadway's Brightest Star for You to See and Hear! Our "Talkies" Are the Talk of the Town! Terrific Underworld Drama [or Comedy, as the case may be] with the Added Thrill of the Human Voice! Sensational Eye and Ear Entertainment! Catchlines for Sound Pictures without Dialogue But With Voices of Some Other Sort, or Effects Hear What You See! Hear! Hear! Eye and Ear Entertainment! Sight and Sound Sensation! A Perfect Wedding of Sound and Sight! Look! Listen! Gloriously Set to Golden Sound, with Voices and no-piece Roxy Theatre Orchestra on the Movietone Accompaniment! Your Eyes Will Live! Your Ears Will Love! [Then details of show.] Catchlines for Mere Musical Synchronization And you'll hear the wonderful Roxy Theatre Orchestra of New York making the screen live for your ears, on the MOVIETONE! Miracle Movietone musical accompaniment by the great