NOISY KISSES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21248, 30 July 1932, Page 11 (Supplement)

NOISY KISSES

bane of directors The bane of all directors' HveS f is the fciss that'lias to be filmed with an open microphone. For some strange psy. logical reason, audiences who will thrill at the sight of a kiss shriek with laugnter at the sound of it. Most celluloid kisses are, therefore, filmed with the micropiione shut off. But occasionally it is necessary to keep the mike alive because of other sounds essential to tho action. M Lloyd Bacon, directing * The Crooner, sow In production, worked all the IP o M'j ing to c'et a satisfactory scene of David Manners' kis.sing Ann Dvorak At last he got a shot which looked —and sounded _ perfect. Bui., listening through the sensitive recording apparatus, the mixer heard a sound resembling calico being torn apart. The shot was sent to incinerator/ arid the kissing went on far into the afternoon. . . ~ , If all else fails, a screen kiss is foreshortened." The camera "shoots from directly behind the actor's head, and, because of tho two-dimensional field of the icreen, he seems to press his lips to the ictress' wjth fervour and effectiveness. Actually, their mouths remain several inches apart,-