TALKING PICTURES.
NEW SYSTEM IN AMERICA. SIMPLICITY OF OPERATION. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN COP.RESPONDENT ] WELLINGTON. Monday. "In from two to five years I should say the orchestra as an adjunct to a picture show will become extinct." said Mr. A. C. Davis, managing director of the Exhibitors Alliance Films (New Zealand), when interviewed to-day. Mr. Davis has just returned from a visit to New York. One of the most wonderful discoveries affecting the picture industry that came under his notice was the synchronisation of sound with moving pictures. Mr. Davis saw and heard a now kind of talking picture termed the vitaphone, One New York paper had said that the apparatus was no more complicated from the standpoint of operation than the .ordinary projecting machine, and no special skill was required by the operator. Use would not be restricted to the cinema theatre, as it could be made available for ordinary theatres or in commercial and religious fields. The new idea had been developed by the experts of the Western Electric Company and the Bell telephone laboratories.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19456, 12 October 1926, Page 6
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