The talkies (1930)

Page scan 000122 from The talkies

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
000122
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
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74 THETALKIES frequently quite noticeable together with a marked change of tone. Not only is the microphone stupid, but it is ";%wzaural," so that any recording done on a microphone circuit is, therefore, not heard by the microphone as we hear it. Generally speaking it has been found desirable to allow as much natural reverberation as the microphone will permit, in order that the actors may be given conditions as nearly approaching the normal as possible. It is as difficult to make an impassioned oration with one's head under the blankets as it is glorious to sing in a bath. It seemed at one time that it would be desirable that the Talkie actor should retain the declamatory tones necessary on the legitimate stage, but again the modern microphone enables him to talk in a far more natural and restrained way without the necessity of the operators having to increase their valve magnification, introducing the "boomy," unnatural tones which such amplification has by experience been shown to produce. The sound-engineer has had to develop an ear for his work and has to shift and shuffle his draperies as the camera-man swings his banks of lights and peers through the various sights of his