Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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James Arthur Miller (Stanford '13, U. S. Navy, Warner Brothers) has a sound-recording system which picks up sound on a film tape in much the same way that the sound track on a talking cinema film does it. Engineer Miller's theory is that most radio shows, concerts, interviews could and should be staged, directed, polished up and edited beforehand, Hollywood style, and then transmitted from recordings. With radio's prevalent system of disc recording, cutting and editing is almost impossible. But with Millertape a complete, timed-to-the-second radio show can be pieced together...
Biding his time, he is working on another application of his system, an invasion of the phonograph field. Capable of a wider fidelity range than wax recordings, film sound tracks suffer virtually no deterioration, since they are played back by a light ray, not by a needle. Engineer Miller plans a sound-track phonograph containing a changeable supply of recordings that may be selected and played just as a button-tuner radio is operated. Estimated phonograph price range: $150 to $3,000. Estimated cost of recordings: about...
...Society. But Madeleine Carroll, as the slightly pixilated cafesse, succeeds in making herself so delightful, and Fred MacMurray, as the penniless newspaper hack, is so colorless, that everyone leaves the picture convinced that Success is Society and Society is Heaven. If the audience is willing to discount the film's moralizing, it can settle back for an hour or so and enjoy the ermine and champagne...
...photographic end of the training device has been completed by the Harvard Film Society, the same organization that has been experimenting with micro-film in Widener Library...
...presence of a tidy little morsel named Lucille Ball. The young lady, it may be said, is very badly dressed and very good looking. "Farmyard Symphony," the Walt Disney aperitif on the bill, is not so tasty as usual, but adds its share of seasoning to the film menu...