The talkies (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
00096
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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6l THETALKIES of the shot photographed on to it to know to which bit of the separate picture-film it belonged. There is a further difficulty ; while the pictureand sound-films are in their respective cameras they exactly synchronize, but they have to be taken out for development, and unless special precautions are taken to see that means are provided to enable the engineers to re-synchronize them, it would be practically impossible to do so. However, film camera-men are not beaten by that sort of thing ; on each film a series of special dots used to be marked at exactly the same time, so that when the two films were removed to the laboratories for development all that had to be done was to get the marks in a line with each other so that they corresponded. When the soundfilms have been developed, much in the same way as an ordinary negative, and printed on to positive film, which corresponds to the printing paper of the amateur photographer, the picture is printed on first, and then the sound-negative is printed on to a strip of the positive film which has been masked while the picture was printed. A very simple method has been developed in modern film studios for matching up soundtrack and picture. It is called the "Clapstick,"