The talkies (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
000145
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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THE TALKIES 89 are by no means universally liked by the cameramen, who have always to remember that the projectors in the small country theatres are apt to be of the "weird and wonderful" variety, and they have to adjust their ideas of what the lighting of their "shots" shall be with this in mind. Some are, for this reason, reluctant to pledge their faith in incandescent lighting, because they maintain that the Inkies do not give sufficiently sharp detail on dark subjects to withstand the motley array of more or less inefficient projectors in the smaller cinemas. When the first Talkies were being made, one of the first things that bothered producers was the noise of the cameras, especially where more than one camera was being used at once. Studio cameras were often a good deal noisier than a sewing machine, and it is indeed a very difficult matter to make a machine running at such a high speed in any way sufficiently silent for Talkie work. Everything had been sacrificed to smooth and rapid action, and silence was the last thing that the manufacturers had bothered about. The obvious course was adopted when the early Talkies were being made, and the cameras and their operators were enclosed in soundproof boxes or booths, much to the camera