TALKING FILMS.

Waipawa Mail, Volume L, Issue 2, 19 September 1928, Page 3

TALKING FILMS.

THROW MUSICIANS OUT OF WORK. (Australian and N.Z. Press Assn.) LONDON, September 18. The so-called “talky-soundv” films, which carry their own musical vocal accompaniment, are now likely to throw two-thirds of the musicians out of work in Britain in the next two years. It is estimated that fifty thousand more musicians will shortly he thrown out in America, where the “talkies-soundies” are thus effecting an economy of at least a million sterling annually. The Musicians’ Union of Britain, where more than three- thousand orchestras have been brought into existence by the ciinemas, are endeavoring to obtain a guarantee that at least one-third of the musicians now in employment shall he retained by the industry to supplemnt the tinned music nr deputise when the machinery is out of order.