PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 26, 1 February 1926, Page 3

PARAMOUNT THEATRE.

The pictures screening at the Paramount Theatre in conjunction with the Phonofiilms at the Paramount Theatre are a First National film, "The Scarlet West," a tale of whites, and Indians in the days of frontier war, a gazette, a cartoon, and toon, and an educational film.

A Carnepie Institute professor i« trying to devise instruments capable of picking up, amplifying, and broadcasting heat waves. He believes the. day is not distant when heat will be broadcasted on a wholesale scale for commercial and domestic purposes. Admitting that this new scientific "stunt" may materialise, it is no more wonderful than an American's invention now being demonstrated • in Wellington. This is _ Dr. Lee De Forest's Phonbfilm—a cinema film on which sound waves, after conversion to light-waves, are recorded by photography and thrown off simultaneously with associated movements. That is to say, iClara Butt were phonofilmed as she sang, not only her figure, her movements, her facial expressions would be recorded in • the normal way, but every syllable, every inflection, every subtle shade and tone of voice "-would be photographed on to the same film. It is therefore clear that that great artist could be seen and heard "in countless cinemas at the same time. A short phonofilm season com-! menced at the Paramount Theatre last/Friday, this being the first time they were publicly exhibited south of the Equator. The showing is to be continued this week. -. ' ;