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Through the impulse of Premier Mussolini the Italian Parliament has provided official funds for the production of talking motion pictures, according to information received from the Department of Commerce at Washington, D. C. The net profits of the government-controlled company are to accrue to the War Cripples' Fund. Apart from this production enterprise Signor Mussolini believes that the venture will help to develop the Italian motion picture industry.
Dialogue motion pictures have been given official attention through announcement in London that the British Board of Film Censors will continue to act as sole censors of talking and sound films, as well as silent motion pictures. There was some question as to whether the Lord Chamberlain's Theatrical Censorship Department would undertake to review talking films, but it was finally decided the latter shall be judged the same as the silent ones.
Rapid progress is being made abroad in the development of modern sound apparatus and in the use of American sound systems. At the present time there are four German systems by which sound and film are synchronized. These are known as the Tri-Ergon, the Messter, the Kuschenmeister, and the Tobis, all of which are interchangeable and operate on the disk as well as on the film principle. In France, the firm of Jacques Haik has announced a new sound device to be called "The Cinevox-Haik," which it is understood will use both the disk and sound-on-film systems.
Western Electric equipment has already been installed in foreign countries. Such installations have been made in the UFA. Palace, Berlin; the Madeline Cinema at Paris; the Regal in London; in Glasgow, Scotland, and other important European cities, and in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, where the introduction of sound has created tremendous interest. Further inroads have alreadv been