TELEPHONE'S AID
A new use for the telephone has been discovered by the producers of a British film at Elstree. . In the making of a talking film depicting a lighthouse drama it was desired to record in the studio ,as realistically as possible, the cries of .seagulls and the 6urge of'the waves. It was arranged with, the Post Office authorities 'that a special line should be led' out to the cliffs at Beachy Head and connected with Elstree, says the "Weekly Scotsman." >From the top of the cliff a boom was run out, and a microphone was connected with the end of the telephone wire. The microphone was then lowered from the end of the boom down the cliff nntU it reached the seagulls, which soon became accustomed to the instrument, and '-'made their call," which travelled over the telephone wires to Elstree, where it was- amplified and "photographed" on a length of film. This, in suitable length, was fixed to the appropriate sections of the picture 'film embodying scenes already photographed some time previously at another part of tho English coast.
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Evening Post, Volume 32, Issue 32, 6 August 1931, Page 23
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182TELEPHONE'S AID Evening Post, Volume 32, Issue 32, 6 August 1931, Page 23
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