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290 SOUND MOTION PICTURES
character. The advantage of having a master musician arrange the score for each motion picture is that it insures uniform and practically perfect interpretation wherever that picture is shown.
In order that every mood in the motion picture may be adequately expressed, the preparation of such scores entails research and many weeks of study. The problem of budgeting can be solved only by synchronization, so that a central agency produces for all with full equipment. Situations that call for an Oriental locale carry with them their own musical atmosphere. The soul-stirring anguish of the heroine is interpreted musically; the joyous cries of the populace are enhanced by an appropriate description from the instruments. Orchestras consisting of talented musicians may be employed under expert direction to interpret any effect or scene; and after the record has once been made, on either film or disk, it may be duplicated and reproduced anywhere, any time. The sound device's greatest value to screen art is the fact that the music that accompanies the picture is under the control of the producers of the picture. Dramatic situations that perhaps may be enhanced by singing choruses, heretofore available only in the highest type of motion picture theatres, now may be reproduced on any sound screen. Because of the facilities that are now possible in disseminating the masterpieces of music, the entire standard of appreciation will be raised.
The public, even in the largest theatres in the biggest cities, is entirely satisfied to accept the musical accompaniment that is produced through sound synchronization as a substitute for orchestras. Performers who are replaced because of the introduction of sound devices create a sympathetic and trying problem but one which is not new. Since the time of the earliest mechanical developments progress has ever had to face a similar situation.