The talkies (1930)

Page scan 00067 from The talkies

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
00067
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
Something wrong or inaccurate about this page? Let us Know!

Thanks for helping us continually improve the quality of the Lantern search engine for all of our users! We have millions of scanned pages, so user reports are incredibly helpful for us to identify places where we can improve and update the metadata.

Please describe the issue below, and click "Submit" to send your comments to our team! If you'd prefer, you can also send us an email to mhdl@commarts.wisc.edu with your comments.




We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.

Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.

THE TALKIES 39 would in all probability have difficulty in driving the record round owing to the increased load at the outside of the record. The needle pressure with the very fine needles which would be necessary for the correct recording of vibrations of over 5 ,000 vibrations per minute, at the speeds at which the usual gramophone is designed to revolve, is so great that, while it is perfectly possible to make a wax that has a fine enough surface texture to justify the use of such needles, it has not been found practicable to make a saleable record material which combines the desired smoothness of texture and a sufficiently hard surface to withstand the wear of being played many hundreds of times. The disc soundrecords are only supplied by some Talkie concerns on the strict understanding that they are not to be used more than a certain number of times. It is usual with some recording companies to have two recording machines at work when an artist is being recorded, in order that there may be one wax left intact for the factory when the other is "played back" to the artist for his approval. As we should expect, it is the high frequencies that suffer when the "wax" is played back more than two or three times, and in spite of