The talkies (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
00054
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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26 THETALKIES America, and any recordings on either of these processes have come to be known as "Western Electric." Next in the field was the Radio Corporation of America with their Photophone system, which also photographs the sound on the side of the film, but in a different manner from either De Forest or Movietone, in that the latter employ what is known as the variable density system, which to the eye looks like a series of lines of the same length, but varying in intensity from very light grey to deep black. The Radio Corporation of America use a method of recording known as the variable area method, about which I shall have a good deal to say later in comparing it with the variable density method used by British Talking Pictures and the Western Electric Company when they are recording on films instead of gramophone records. There are many other methods and systems, but they all employ variants of the principles which I have mentioned, and which will be investigated more fully in the following chapter.