PRICE OF VOICE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 4, 6 January 1930, Page 15

PRICE OF VOICE

I am, etc., Witt. H, KING, Hon. Sec, N.Z. Esperanto Association 6th January.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —The article written by "Z," which appeared under the above heading in your issue of the 4th instant, should cutitJe the contributor to praise, especially for the manner in which he described the position obtaining at present in connection with the talking films when introduced into tho international field. After perusing the article, it became apparent to the reader that, notwithstanding the operation of the several powerful European tongues, practically the only difficulty, excluding racial prejudices, which producers havo yet to overcome in order to secure universal, or international, distribution of such' films is that i-ausod directly by language. It must be patent to aIJ thinking people, particularly after analysing "Z's" contribution, that > tli». employment of a common, international language would be the means of rumoving the limitations imposed on tho "talkies" by the diversity of language. To many this may appear to be an impracticable innovation, but I would point out that had the League of Nations in 1D22 authorised instead of recommended to its members tho instruction of the neutral vehicle, Es poranto, in all schools of the world, then to-day, after almost a decade, a generation would havo been in possession of the second, auxiliary language, and, as a. result, would have boon ablu to surmount. the language barriers ai present.besetting not..enly the talking film but also other internationnl services and relations. It may interest your readers to know that already two short "shoots" of talkies; have been made in Esperanto.