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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 72, 18 December 1928, Page 3

So much has been beard of the “talkie pictures” that it is interesting to receive first-hand information from a man who has, during the past few. months, been among the audience in an up-to-date “talkie” picture-house. Mr. T. N. Horsley. who returned to Christchurch recently, after a six months’ trip abroad, expressed the opinion to a representative of the “Press” that this class of picture had come to stay. He explained that in America he saw an operatic tenor on a film, with the voice coming perfectly, and that it was extremely dimcult to believe that it was not the living man. At another picture house, he saw and heard both candidates for the Presidency of America give five minutes speeches, and, again the impression was the same. In a play in England, however, there appeared to be little co-re-latipn between the character and the artist's speaking voice, A football match appeared to be a mere jumble of sound, which might have been produced by anybody, while a single speech, with the artist depicted, was excellent.