The talkies (1930)

Page scan 000178 from The talkies

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
000178
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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114 THE TALKIES to be altered, and a great deal of additional gear added, for the examiner now has to listen to the film as well as look at it ! It is important that the first print off the machine should be heard under theatre conditions, and the inspectors have had to develop an ear as well as an eye ! The joining of films has had to receive attention. It is no longer possible to make the usual quick splice which was perfectly satisfactory for silent pictures, because it emerges from the loudspeakers as a loud "plonk," which is very disconcerting. This trouble has been overcome to a certain extent by two methods of splicing — one avoids the necessity of lapping the two broken portions of the film over each other by bringing the two ends together just as they have broken, and securing them with a strip of clear celluloid stuck underneath them, and the other device arranges for a triangular dab of either black or red paint to be placed over the point where the sound-track is joined, so that it momentarily reduces the light to the cell until all danger of a "plonk" is past. As in the sound-cameras, the question of vibration has had to be studied very carefully. When these printers came to be used for sound-track, they were continuous printers, it is true, but it