“TALKIE” FILMS THE VOGUE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 35, 13 February 1929, Page 3

“TALKIE” FILMS THE VOGUE

UltE.lT INTlililiST IN SYDNEY. CONTROL OP SOUND VOLUME. “The ‘talkies’ are all the rage in Sydney ar, the present time,” said Mr E. J. Prendergast, the Auckland barrister, on his return from the Commonwealth the other day. “They appear as if they had come to stay. Everybody is interested in the

new invention, and it is difficult to get a seat in th e theatres where the ■talkies’ are screened. What impressed me was the provision made in the theatres for a person to control the sound volume. In the centre of the theatre a box is provided and a telephone installed from where the sound director communicates with the projector box and instructs the operator as to the volume —whether the voice is too loud or too faint.

“I was struck with the wonderful effect produced on the audience

by the natural sounds from street

traffic, etc., in subjects screened

There was a street scene in a picture where one could hear and see a husband and wife in a motor car having a quarrel, and a baby crying. It! is all so natural, but people will have to bo careful of what they are saying if there is a ‘talkie” camera about,”