TALKING PICTURES

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 37, 15 February 1929, Page 6

TALKING PICTURES

f f f»' COMING INTO FAVOUR. EXPERIENCE IN SYDNEY. In conversation with a “Post” representative, Mr W. P. Kirkwood, lot’ Sydney, chairman o£ directors of the I De Forest Phonofilms Co. of New Zealand and Australia, said that the public in Sydney are patronising the (talking films in a wonderful manner. They are shown at the Regent, Prince Edward and Lyceum Theatres, which have four sessions daily, ’showing continuously from 10.30 to 11 P.m. There are crowded houses at all sessions. ' Generally, exhibitors are realising that it will be necessary soon to instal talking pictures, as the silent film will shortly be a thing of the past. There had been great developments in the talking pictures in England and the United States. The pictures have now been brought t 0 such a state of perfection that It he idea that the spectator is listening to shadow talking is soon lost, and one gets to think that the characters on the screen are in the theatre in the flesh.

The parent company of Mr Kirkwood’s company, De Forest vPh'onolilms, Ltd. (of England), has altered its designation to British Talking Pictures, Ltd.