movies_creation
American Movie Archives (美國電影檔案)
- Title
- Finding His Voice
- Year
- 1929
- Abstract
- Cartoon showing how sound motion pictures work, produced by a company that was an innovator in the field. Story by W.E. Erpi (pseudonym for Western Electric, Electrical Research Products Inc.). Directors: F. Lyle Goldman and Max Fleischer.
- Notes
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Produced: Western Electric Company, Inc.
Sponsor: Western Electric Company, Inc.
Run Time: 10:38
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W - Keyword
- Perception: Sound;Motion pictures: Sound;Animation;Motion pictures: Sound;Animation
- Theme
- Finding his Voice
- Review
-
Excellent 1929 short on the description of optical sound. From the early advents of the talkies, which was the sound on disk (16 inch shellac disks syncronized with the projector via linkage from the projector motor, in which is what DTS is-kind of of a step backwards with using an external CDrom source for sound to sync up with the timecode on the film for playback), in the process of going forwards with digital sound to our digital sound we have today, it's amazing to also see how the early methods of creating what is called a variable density soundtrack using the wire and aperture method, whereas the later methods of variable desnity recordings were with light passing through an aperture that would bright and dim with voltage variations of the original sound source. Also, in this clip of the projection device, being interesting that the cartoonists used the Powers 6-B silent projector adapted for sound on disk usage for this animated short. And, also take a look at those stage speakers with the folded horn concept-very antique. Overall, quite an interesting short to present to the public on how sound is created for the motion picture audience. I've been the motion picture field for over 35yrs-from carbon arc, exciterlamp, nitrate film, and changeovers to the digital world as we know it today..
(Reviewer: op712) - Location
- A/V room, 2/F