The talkies (1930)

Page scan 000208 from The talkies

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
000208
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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136 THE TALKIES governor mounted on the shaft of the driving motor — not unlike that used on a gramophone, with the exception that, instead of there being a friction brake, a variable electrical resistance is controlled by the governor, which allows more or less power to pass to the motors. This arrangement is, it is claimed, in every way as efficient as the electrical drive of the Western Electric Company, and it has the advantage of being extremely robust in construction. From the point of view of the owners of picture houses, the apparatus produced by the Radio Corporation of America has the great merit of being cheaper than the Western Electric apparatus; and there is no reason to doubt that the results from a bank of modern coil-driven loudspeakers more than justify their installation, and that they are at least as capable of giving accurate reproduction as the trumpets of the Western Electric system. The public will in the long run say on what machines they prefer their Talkies projected. The horn is capable of producing a greater volume for a given power input ; but it is quality, and not a superabundance of quantity, that is wanted; and there seems little doubt that the moving-coil speaker, with its power of wide sound