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302 SOUND MOTION PICTURES
ing Miss Lois Wilson, and Post Mortems, with Raymond Griffith.
The first sound comedy released by Educational Film Exchanges was The Eligible Mr. Banks, with Edward Everett Horton, which was an all-dialogue comedy with sound effects. This was the first of a series along the lines of a type which was produced some years ago by Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Drew as silent motion pictures and which met with popular success.
Hal Roach and Mack Sennett, veteran comedy producers of silent motion pictures, have added sound to virtually all of their efforts, and at this time practically every organization making comedies is introducing sound effects, or musical synchronization, or dialogue. Of particular advantage to comedy producers is the opportunity that is offered for appropriate musical accompaniments. It is a well-known fact that music, when intelligently applied, may do much to enhance the enjoyment of comedy subjects. Farce, which has heretofore been difficult to convey convincingly in the silent motion picture, becomes practicable with the use of dialogue. Through sound, likewise, it now becomes possible to screen miniature musical comedies and to bring an entirely new note of entertainment to film theatres.
On December 31, 1927, through the Fox Movietone, was shown the first regular issue of the sound news, which contained talking subjects and made possible the reproduction of any event through sound as well as photography. The news reel, long taken for granted, has always been an auxiliary to any motion picture programme. With sound, its value is increased twofold. First, it speaks with the clear ring of the human voice. Secondly, the voices of prominent persons throughout the world can now be perpetuated for all time.
The development of the sound news reel must be at