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Talking Pictures
Montage effects are secured in various ways. Most popular is the "wipe" wherein photographically one image is literally wiped from the screen, as if by a magic cloth, and its place taken by a new image. Also there are methods of having three or four different images share the same film frame in the manner of the montage photographs now so popular in magazines and newspaper rotogravure sections. Montage is one of the newest arts of the motion picture and its importance has mounted so rapidly that all the film industry was pleased when the University of Southern California honored Slavko Vorkapich for the May time montage we have mentioned.
Young scientists may well look to the motion picture industry for inspiration. Photography has gone a long, long way since the crude coated metal plates of Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre. Many great advances have come in the last twenty years in the path of the motion picture. We exclaim today over the marvels of the "candid" camera and wonder that still photographs can be made in a room lighted by only one candle. But we forget to wonder whether this achievement would have been possible had the motion picture not grown from infancy to maturity in two decades.
It has gone quite unsung, but the records of science have few prouder pages than those in which more than a thousand improvements in talking picture recording have been entered. Edison today would smile with deep satisfaction if he could note the marvels achieved by modern young men in the solution of a problem which eluded him.
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