SOUND NEWS FILMS

Northern Advocate, 13 June 1931, Page 5

SOUND NEWS FILMS

* PRODUCTION IN' AUSTRALIA.

EQUIPMENT ORDERED,

ADELAIDE. June 8

Mr H. A. Ivauper, -who was entertained at tli c broadcasting station uAD yesterday, said he believed that Australian Sound Films Pty. Ltd., would soon be able to give the public a 'Service unprecedented in Australia. ‘While in England Mr ICauper visited all the principal recording studios and conferred with experts. Upon his recommendation sound and picture recording apparatus was obtained. This will roach Australia in a week or two.

The new equipment selected, he said, was more modern than anything he had seen on his travels. It embodied improvements which ensured a near approach to perfection in sound recording and gave a- maximum ot mobility. Plans were being pushed forward for producing films ■which would record important happenings in Australia.

Mr Kauper said that in London the talking news reel was becoming increasingly popular. There were two theatres open from .10 a.m. to 11 pan., giving continuous performances. To keep programmes up to date producers were working in conjunction with American companies.

On the Continent and in England Mr Kauper studied new recording methods. Sounds were recorded on a strip of wire something like a strip of narrow tape, which re-ran through a sjnall apparatus at the rate of a metre a second. Sounds were recorded by electro magnetic effects on tape as it passed through. Immediately after the record had been made the wire could bo passed through a reproducing machine and music or voice reproduced with greater perfection than by any other method with which he was familiar.