The talkies (1930)

Page scan 00025 from The talkies

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
00025
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
August 29, 2024
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THETALKIES 3 business, has taken on an entirely different complexion. Film editing consists of cutting and arranging the various episodes with their captions and titles in a telling and effective sequence. With the silent drama it is perfectly possible to cut out many feet of film without distracting the eye of the audience ; not so with the Talkies, however ; the effect of taking out a scene and half a sentence with it would be disastrous ! If that is necessary it all has to be done over again. A mere snip of the scissors and a nimble dab of film cement is no longer always possible. The film actors are not the only folk who have been set by the ears : there is not a single department in film work which has not had to start on a whole series of new problems and adapt already known processes to the new art. Producers, set designers, scenario writers, carpenters, electricians, and chemists all are hard at work trying to keep up with the Talkies which have burst upon the world so suddenly and have been hailed as the most marvellous invention of modern times. But we must pause and think. Are they as new as all that? . . . In the scramble to produce them, to go and see them, praise or blame them, we seem to have