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Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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mitters) C. H. Verity Talking Moving Picture System U.S.A. (Veritiphone) Leon Gaumont France Orlando E. Kellum U.S.A. By sound on film Eugene Lauste. . .France, England, U.S.A. Tri-Ergon Corporations Europe and U.S.A. Lee deForest U.S.A. and Germany During this testing period. Craftdecided to produce a series of musicalshorts with professional talent. Anexciting period followed. Individualswith motion picture backgrounds, in- ventors, actors, musicians, promoters,and many others found their way to463 West Street. Those who reachedCraft or his assistants volunteered athousand varieties of advice and serv-ice. Some were admitted to demonstra-tions. A few made helpful suggestions.Craft told all who sought to com-mercialize the apparatus or to effecta Hollywood tie-up that WesternElectric would consider any reason-able proposal. He promised to try toprotect the interests of any who aidedWestern Electric in commercializingthe apparatus. But to all he declaredthe Company desired to make the
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The IVorks. Said a Western Electricannouncement of the time^ This projectiontnachine gives a motion picture audienceboth visual and audible . entertainment. . . Absolute synchronism , of film withreproduced sound having^^a naturalnessnever before attained . . . 1946 Twenty Years of Talking Movies 97 apparatus available to the entire mo-tion picture industry. He thereforefavored a responsible intermediateagency capable of performing thatfunction. Authentic representations weremade as to the superiority of West-erns new sound picture technique,and offers for its commercializationwere vigorously solicited. But by theend of 1924 practically every majorproducer in Hollywood had rejectedWestern Electrics sound picture sys-tem. Obstacles to Cotnmercial Use The Western Electric engineerswere not discouraged by Hollywoodsindifference. Behind it lay valid rea-soning. The motion picture producers hadlarge inventories of silent films, whichhad cost millions to produce. They hadgreat numbers of ac

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