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

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272 SOUND MOTION PICTURES world-renowned artists for you to SEE AND HEAR ... in a perfect wedding of SIGHT AND SOUND! You HEAR and SEE all; the motion picture world on parade . . . the world in action passes in review ... in triumphal scenes that you HEAR! HEAR! SEE! SEE! You will find in the FOX MOVIETONE TALKING NEWS-WEEKLY and WARNER BROTHERS VITAPHONE PRODUCTIONS the Aladdin's lamp of Modern Entertainment programmes. . . . THE LAST WORD IN MOTION PICTURES THAT SPEAK AND SING! The following type of copy is for use in introducing Movietone or Vitaphone in your town when your first production employs dialogue partly as in Fox's Air Circus, or Warner Brothers' Caught in the Fog: On [date]. The Treat of Treats ! The Hit of Hits! The Theatre FIRST TALKING PICTURE! The [name of theatre] "goes talkie" with that next show. The whole city has been waiting for this moment. It will be the Theatre's first word and the city's last WORD in TALKING PICTURES! Our FIRSTTALKING PICTURE will be [name of picture and name of producer]. Scientifically perfected [Movietone or Vitaphone] production You'll HEAR AND SEE it! You'll HEAR [name or names of stars] ... in an allspeaking cast. . . . You'll SEE AND HEAR a superb comedy-drama [or whatever it may be]. . . . DON'T MISS THIS POWERFUL . . . DYNAMIC DRAMA IN DIALOGUE! THIS "TALKIE" INAUGURAL THAT WILL BE TOWN TALK! at the