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Talking Pictures
These then — perfected color, perfected television, and perfected third dimension — are goals which loom invitingly before the eyes of the coming generations. These are achievements whose greatest fruition must await a genius who may be at this moment kicking his toes in a nursery crib, or running to a touchdown on some high school football field.
But all of us cannot be trail blazers. There is much to be done along already established lines. But it should not be inferred that ambitious persons should at once take trains, boats, or planes to reach the nearest film studios. The number of persons employed in all present film plants is so small compared to those who would like to be in this fascinating mixture of art and industry, that generally film makers urge job hunters to stay away unless they are sent for.
It is not in the studios of the present that the greatest chances will come, but in the greatly to be enlarged panorama which will encompass a larger future use of the cinema medium.
For adventurous young men who like to travel, there is certain to be exceptional opportunities in foreign countries in the field of sound reproducing — opportunities similar to those now enjoyed by questing young mining engineers. Nearly every theatre in the United States now has sound equipment, but in the world outside there are seventy thousand theatres which do not yet have sound reproducing devices. Development of the sound picture abroad is an alluring prospect.
And even in the United States there are great opportunities for the sound engineer in the educational field.
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