TALKING MOVIES
SOON ON SCREEN NO DBAMAS FOR A TIME SCHENECTADY, Feb. 14. Talking movies will soon be an actuality on theatre screens. The General Electric Company, producers of the new photophone, is working on several contracts for the immediate production of projecting machines. At a second demonstration of the new pictures it was explained that the directors find difficulty in excluding from the film extraneous noises, which means that in talking pictures the actors must not make unnecessary noise and must speak their parts exactly at the proper moment. One demonstration showed the use of music with the picture, the strains of a 100-pioce orchestra flooding every corner of the exhibition room. Low frequency tunes, which hitherto have been difficult to reproduce, were easily identified. The first pictures will -not be in dramatic form, due to the studio problem and the human element, but pictures of bands and speakers with incidental sounds will be produced. As the high technique is developed the production will turn to dramas.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19769, 17 February 1927, Page 2
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