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

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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 #:
000388
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:
August 22, 2024
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CHAPTER XVII THE FUTURE I. A Brief Retrospect Throughout the text references have been made to the future, since it has been beyond human reserve to resist the temptation to do so. Even though I anticipated this chapter as my conclusion, I was frequently forced to run ahead, because of the very nature of my theme. When anything, like sound, has the majority of its life ahead of it the interest is bound to turn to the probable next step, or the grand outcome. The excitement of what may or may not be expected gives the mind a third dimension of untold length. No occupation ever seems quite so solid, so real, as the one still unfinished. In a sense, then, this book is more a prophecy than a record, for most of it is forward looking. The best proof of this would be, illogically, to halt for a brief review. In Part I, I told the tale of the past (chapter I) merely to provide a background for the contemporary scene; and I broke off at the end of chapter II only because to-day is ever brief and can be finished only when it becomes to-morrow. In the second division I did, it is true, explain the mechanism in the theatre as it is now constituted. In my exposition of the standard sound devices and their operation (chapters III and IV), in my popularized resume of acoustics (chapter V), in the manual (chapter VI) and its pendent on maintenance (chapter VII) — in all 356