The talkies (1930)

Page scan 000280 from The talkies

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
000280
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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I92 THE TALKIES make a talking picture is to substitute dialogue for titles, shoot the picture with finished silent version technique, and have the sound-experts swing a lot of 'mikes' round above the camera line, and record. Now let me give you an analogy. . . . Suppose, for example, that the motion-picture industry with its present highly developed technique and art was suddenly called upon to go on to the so-called legitimate stage and shoot silent versions of stage plays. Then suppose the stagemanagers stipulated that the motion-picture experts must improve their equipment and revise their methods so that they could do a passable job of photography without changing one iota of stage action, lighting, actors' make-up, design, and arrangement of sets, and, furthermore, that the cameras must shoot from some fixed sideline so that the audience cannot possibly see them. Cannot you plainly hear the tremendous howl which would go up to high heaven from the cinematographers and picture directors ? Yet this is a perfect analogy of what we sound-engineers are expected to be able to perform on the studio floor." The cinematographer, being above all things an adaptable fellow, as well as a scientist, has, however, found in the sound-engineer an indi