The talkies (1930)

Page scan 000154 from The talkies

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
000154
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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96 THETALKIES frames of a clothes-horse, these racks being then immersed in large upright tanks of developer. They were periodically raised, so that the man who was responsible for their treatment could see how they were getting on ; when he considered them finished, they were rinsed and put in the fixing tank. This process naturally demanded a very high degree of skill, and the "developer," as he was called, held a very important position. On his shoulders rested the responsibility of the whole of the production costs, for should anything go amiss with his end of the production, parts anyhow of the film would have to be re-shot on the studio floor, or on location, as the case might be, with consequent additional delay and expense. With the advent of the sound-picture this rack and tank method had to be dropped; highly skilled though the "developer" may be, he is yet human and cannot attain the machine-like precision which the proper treatment of sound-tracks demands. Machines for the automatic treatment of positive films, originally evolved in England, have been in use for some years ; and machines for the treatment of negative films have recently been devised which will do the work of the "Developer," whose