The talkies (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
00026
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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4 THETALKIES forgotten to wonder who invented them, and whether or not some of the praise, anyhow, should not go to scientific workers, some of whom are long since dead, but who dreamed of Talkies and made their contribution of inventiveness and hard work to the bulging bank balances of the Talkie producers of to-day? While it is the purpose of this book to take our readers behind the scenes a little and show them something of that side of film production which hardly, if ever, appears on the silver screen ; into the studios and laboratories where they may see and learn something of the various processes and find out how the experts in their long white coats are tackling the hundreds of new problems with which they have been so suddenly confronted; is it fair to charge right ahead and forget the pioneers with their queer apparatus and their dreams and disappointments? Surely not! A book could be written about any one of them. But you need not fear that you will be bored with dull figures or a mass of lecture jargon. All that can be done is to give honour where it is due and remind you that there is very little that is brand new in any modern development, except, perhaps, the glittering motor-cars of