"TALKIE" FILMS THE VOGUE.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 12, 15 January 1929, Page 3

"TALKIE" FILMS THE VOGUE.

GREAT INTEREST IN SYDNEY. CONTROL OF SOUXD VOLUME. "The 'talkies , are all the rape in Syd- "'•'- .it tlie present lime." said Mr. E. J. Prendergast, the Auckland barrister, on lii.» return from the Commonwealth to-day. "They appear as if they liad come, to stay. Everybody is interested in the new invention, and it is difficult to get a seat in the theatres where, the 1 'talkies' are screened. What impressed me wns the provision made in the ther,r p"-«on to control the sound volume. In the centre of the rlcatre ; ' '■ "\ i> I'io'iiled and a telephone installed from where tlie sound director communicates with the projector box and instructs the operator as to the volume—•whether the voice i* too loud or too faint. "T was struck with the wonderful effect produced on the audience by the natural sounds from street traffic, etc., in subjects screened. There wa« a street scene in a picture, where, one could hear and see a husband and wife in a motor car havinp a quarrel, and a baby crying. Tt is all po natural, but people will have fo.be carefnl of what they arc saying if there is a 'talkie' camera about."