The talkies (1930)

Page scan 000149 from The talkies

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
000149
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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THETALKIES 91 action to do away with the necessity of such cumbersome and cramping devices. Camera-men, like other men, have their feelings; no one who has heard it can forget the immortal story of the camera-man who, while perched on a roof to film the funeral of the late King Edward, was detected spasmodically turning his camera in time to the Dead March with tears pouring down his face! His film was not a success ! The latest device for silencing cameras has been dubbed the "Blimp," and is in effect a sound-proof camera-case completely enclosing the camera but allowing access to the controls. The two illustrations show a "Debrie" camera "Blimp" both open and closed. The work of the camera manufacturers was further complicated by the fact that for soundwork it was found to be necessary to work at a speed of twenty-four pictures to the second instead of sixteen, which had been usual for silent picture work; two reasons, among others, for this was that the sound-track requires a greater length of film per second for satisfactory recording, and secondly, should it be necessary to mend a broken film, the fact that the sound-track is more spread out