The talkies (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
00080
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
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.

48 THETALKIES consequent under-exposure of certain portions of the sound track in a desperate attempt to cover the range of sound-contrast required for the artistic reproduction of whatever is being recorded. One way in which the problem is being attacked is to maintain the glow discharge by means of a subsidiary hot filament, similar to that seen in household bulbs. It seems likely that, while the control of the glow by the direct application of fluctuating potentials from the microphone amplifiers may not prove entirely satisfactory, some such subsidiary glow-maintaining device and another means of controlling it externally will eventually emerge and prove sufficiently adequate to satisfy the exacting standard of such places as the Gramophone Company's magnificent laboratories at Hayes, which, while little known to the millions who use their products, are a household word in the world of science, and from whose test benches and microscopic apparatus emerge those refinements which are the key to public satisfaction and that commercial prosperity with which the company is rewarded for its enterprise. Academic research is rarely spectacular except to the initiated, but by it and by no other means can perfection be reached. Many of the Talking