The talkies (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
00023
Language:
English
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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THE TALKIES CHAPTER ONE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SOUND FILM Everybody has been talking Talkies ; all sorts of things have been written about them. Some people like them, others say that they will be a thing of the past in five years' time. On the other hand many declare that they are the most tremendous advance in public entertainment that has ever been achieved. They came, too, at a time when those engaged in the Motion-Picture industry were beginning uneasily to wonder whether the silent film was not approaching the saturation point of progress. More and more money was being poured out in magnificent theatres and palatial surroundings, with the addition of stunt lighting and very expensive Star Bands and Variety Artists, in an endeavour to negative the suggestion that the day was not far off when the public would begin to ask, marble fountains or no marble fountains, whether there were not some other form of entertainment to satisfy their craving for novelty and new emotional