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

Record Details:

Title:
Sound motion pictures : from the laboratory to their presentation
Date:
1929
Publisher:
Garden City : Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.
Volume:
Sound motion pictures : from the laboratory to their presentation
Leaf #:
000324
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Technology
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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CHAPTER XIII THE SHORT SUBJECT The introduction of sound in connection with motion pictures has, among other things, given a new and greater importance to that unit on the programme known as the short subject. Because of sound it receives a new lease of life. Whereas in the past the short subject was limited to a news weekly, a comedy, or a scenic or novelty film, sound has made it possible to bring to the motion picture theatre features from every branch of the traditional theatre and the concert and operatic stages. These offer a rich source of talent not possible when the screen was silent. In fact, it was through the short subject that sound made its bow to the public. The entertainment that was presented with synchronized film in the very early experiments by Edison with his Kinetophone, as well as other devices of that early period, consisted of short subjects. In the summer of 1926, the first exhibition to the public through modernized sound synchronization equipment was a short subject in which appeared Eddie Cantor, the stage comedian, the recording having been made by the DeForest Phonofilm method. In December of the same year the same company produced a one-act melodrama entitled Retribution, which played about thirty minutes and is probably the first entirely talking short subject ever made. Various others were made by the Bell Laboratories and the General Electric Company in the final stages of their preparatory work in the development 296