The talkies (1930)

Page scan 000152 from The talkies

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
000152
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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94 THE TALKIES ment of every possible moving part, a further improvement was effected. In some cases even the shutters themselves have been covered with a layer of sound-reducing felt. The modern Talkie camera is a marvel of high speed, research and ingenuity, and can be used, it is claimed, within ten feet of a microphone, which would not have tolerated what was an up-to-date camera, only a few months ago, ioo feet away. When the first silent cameras were rushed through the works, it had not been possible to make one which could be reversed, enabling the exposed film to be wound back on to the upper magazine again and re-exposed, so that the fadein and mixing shots, where one scene fades into the other, could be made ; but even that has been achieved now, and the camera-men are happy again. Talking of non-reversible cameras in the early days of Talkies is reminiscent of an amusing story told by Roy Pomeroy, the brilliant English Producer and Film Technician, who produced the first All-Talking Film Interferefice. One of his studio cameras was driven by an electric motor. During a critical moment of the work, the motor