Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them (1937)

Record Details:

Title:
Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them
Date:
1937
Publisher:
London : E. & F. N. Spon, Ltd.
Volume:
Talking pictures : how they are made and how to appreciate them
Leaf #:
000236
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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0 SOUND RECORDING Sound recording in studios has standardized upon the "light ray" method. In this method the motor of the camera and the motor of the recording machine are synchronized so that they run at exactly the same speed. We have seen that when Edison, in 1886, began to experiment with the motion picture, he did it not for love of the cinema as such, but because he hoped to create a talking picture and thereby to sell more phonographs. This latter invention was the one which intrigued him. But he failed to develop a really practical principle of synchronization, and the phonograph was an inadequate medium with which to reproduce sound in a large theatre. While Edison contributed priceless inventions to advance the process of silent film production and projection, his interest declined as the talking picture he sought defied his genius. It was not until 1927 that the world had its first practical talking picture. It would serve no purpose here to list the several score of inventors who have worked on this problem since the time of Edison. Nor would it be anything but confusing to enumerate the excursions into one fruitless scientific bypath after another, before the light ray method was discovered. Suffice it to say that F i9<5]