The talkies (1930)

Page scan 000182 from The talkies

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
000182
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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Il8 THE TALKIES things are sounding in the theatre, and tell him when to make the proper adjustments so necessary for the success of the film. Cinema proprietors will have to readjust their ideas as to how cheaply they can employ men of small ability, and by a more bulky pay envelope banish indifference and encourage keen attention to detail, by which alone they can hope to recoup the cost of installing Talkie apparatus. The chances of having a peep into the operating room of a theatre, especially if it is showing Talkies, are rare. If, however, we were to knock at the door and enter armed with a pass from the Manager, we should have to stand still for a moment while our eyes accustomed themselves to the gloom within ; we should then realize that the sharp stabs of light which stared at us like eyes out of the darkness were coming from the giant projectors standing in a row, trained like guns through the iron-clad shutters on to the glistening screen a hundred feet below. Gradually we should be able to make out the crouching figure of an operator, half sitting, half standing, beside a projector, peering intently at the screen, his face lit up by the unearthly bluish light from the inspection window in the side of the enormous machine he is tending.