TALKING FILMS.
PARAMOUNT PLANS FOR FUTURE Sound is to be the moat important Bevelopment in the industry during the npxt five vears, but this development jwill not take the form of dialogue pictures, asserts Jesse L. Lasky, Paramount's first vice-president in charge of production. Mr. Lasky says Paramount is to enter the field o! this new type of drama in the greatest possible way. To make all talking pictures would turn progress of the screen back at least jten years, he contends. Paramount is keeping secret its plans lor talking pictures, but arrangements with Radio Corporation, of America, and General Electric, is declared to have been tinder negotiation.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19956, 26 May 1928, Page 9 (Supplement)
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108TALKING FILMS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19956, 26 May 1928, Page 9 (Supplement)
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