The talkies (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
00037
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 II But owing to the fact that it was, like all the early disc or cylinder picture machines, merely a peepshow, which could only be viewed by one person at a time, it was not a success, and soon died a natural death. We must turn once more to England in our search for the inventor of the Talking Film as we know it to-day. Romantic as the story of the silent picture has been, the Talkies can claim a special page in the history of scientific development. That page was written in the records of the British Patent Office by Eugene Lauste twenty-three years ago. Lauste had been working for years to combine the work of Herr Ruhmer (a German scientist) and Frieze-Greene ; and he did succeed at length in devising a true Talking Film machine which worked satisfactorily. His work is an excellent example of the combination and patient development of already known facts ; it had, for instance, been known for years that certain materials altered their electrical qualities under the influence of light. The discovery of the light-sensitive properties of selenium was romantic in the extreme, and burst quite unexpectedly on the world of science at a period which is distinguished for the production of discoveries which began to sever