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Talking Pictures
microphone while the silent footage unrolls before him, makes comments or explanations. Commentators of this sort whose names are widely known include Pete Smith, Grantland Rice, Graham McNamee, Wilfred Lucas, Carey Wilson, Robert Benchley, Lowell Thomas, and Edwin C. Hill. A national magazine gave its highest rating of four stars to all the presentations of one of these commentators. They praised him for evenly balancing correct and educational statements on technical and semitechnical subjects and at the same time for creating interest which made them successful at the regular "pay as you enter" theatre.
A great deal of research preparation and study is required of a commentator. He must become expert in his knowledge of each subject under discussion. He must have a good voice, for he must be readily understood. Distinct enunciation, correct volume, and proper pitch give popularity to America's best radio speakers and motion picture commentators. Men who cannot speak correctly and effectively are obviously barred from this interesting new phase of forensics.
Localisms, colloquialisms, slang, and idioms must be carefully used and never to excess, although several commentators have developed a technique for making explanations clearer by couching their illustrations in idioms of the moment. This method needs careful handling to be effective.
The pictorial subjects discussed by the various commentators have been catholic. They include birds, bugs, astrology, telepathy, astronomy, horse breeding, history, paper manufacture, reforestation, costume designing, the
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