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3i6 SOUND MOTION PICTURES
The result of this experiment has been found to be so satisfactory that the course is being made part of the army curriculum. It may therefore be assumed that had sound photography been perfected during the World War it would have been an aid in transmitting messages and signals, as well as in recording important orders and conversations. It would thus have been particularly adaptable in connection with intelligence work.
There is no limit, in other words, to the applicability of the device to educational procedure. The practicability is of course another matter. Yet the attitude of educators is reflected in the statement of Dr. Gustave N. Straubenmuller, Associate City Superintendent of the New York schools, who has said in effect that, though practical considerations rendered the movement inadvisable at the time, he had no doubt of the ultimate consummation. In other words, the inclusion of sound motion picture instruction in the public institutions is only a matter of time and administrative adjustment.
Now, what of the world of business? For many years the phonograph has actually been put to practical use in commerce, particularly in transcribing dictation. Synchronized with motion pictures, in its latest development it will be put to a far wider use than ever before. To the exploitation of merchandise, for example, the sound motion picture brings new possibilities. Manufacturing companies are confidently expected to use sound pictures increasingly as an aid to salesmen and advertising departments and for organization purposes. Pictures will show all sorts of industrial processes, scientific experiments, and educational demonstrations. Why not? They are a splendid medium for the transmission of ideas and the processes and knowledge to large numbers of persons. The talking pictures will deliver the messages of factory executives to their employees, to their conventions, and to