The talkies (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
00034
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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IO THETALKIES with such a tragic history, for he neglected his business in the pursuit of the perfect movie machine and was thrown into prison for debt. While in gaol he suffered the final indignity of seeing his precious apparatus sold under the hammer for the paltry sum of 25 shillings to satisfy his creditors, who little realised that the bits and pieces that they were trundling away on their barrows were to become beyond price in so short a time. Let it suffice to say that he died a pauper whose name is barely known to the millions who nightly crowd the cinemas of the world, rewarded only by a memorial erected in his honour by his colleagues in the industry he created. In the meanwhile in America the indefatigable Edison was actually working on a Talkie, and in 1888 he hitched up to his picture cylinder one of the wax cylinders of his newly invented phonograph, and, to quote Mr. Ramsaye of the Pathe Exchange, New York, he produced "one cylinder of fairly good noises and one full of frightful pictures"; artistically the thing could hardly claim to be a success, but it does serve to show that the idea of the possibility of a Talkie is not by any means new, in fact a Talkie machine pn these lines was actually made commercially.