Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Money was never so easy as last September, when the bull market was in full swing. But in Europe the central banks were in trouble. Helpfully, the Federal Reserve sought to ease up still further on credit in the U. S., with the sound idea that higher interest rates abroad would attract much-needed funds. It ordered the Chicago bank to reduce its rediscount rate from 4 to 3½%. Chicago bankers, led by famed Melvin Alvah Traylor, head of the powerful First National Bank, dissented sharply, voiced grave warnings. Unheeding, the Federal Reserve forced its way, helped Europe weather...
...Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, Major James Fitzmaurice, last week were honored by onetime royalty, snubbed by royalty's onetime subjects. Fresh from receptions in Bremen and Dublin, they flew to Doom, Holland, where Wilhelm II stood on the castle roof to wave them farewell with his one sound arm; thence to Cologne, Germany, where the city fathers, Kaiser-hating, failed to appoint a committee of welcome...
While a person's actions are being recorded by the camera, his words (or songs) are caught by a microphone and sent through an amplifier. In the Movietone, these captured sound waves are changed into light variations which are recorded within the camera on a one-tenth-inch strip down one side of the action-taking film. Thus, the completed talking film differs from an ordinary film only in this lean strip of light and shade. In a theatre, as the film is run off, a reverse process makes the words (or songs) that the audience hears. Horns behind...
Three problems confront the makers of talkies: 1) Women's voices. At present, most of them have a lisp or a husky sound when heard over the Vitaphone. 2) Dialog. Subtitle writers can be stupid, but writers of dialog that is heard should be clever. 3) Sound and Quiet. The abrupt changes in the middle of a film from mute lips to sound-emitting lips are annoying, unreal. (Perhaps the full-length films can be divided into talking acts and nontalking acts...
Back on her yacht Winona, Journalist Stillman renewed her ancient feud with photographers by threatening to hurl one bold fellow into the waters of Long Island Sound. Plates and crockery, not threats, had been her weapons last July, when she fell upon the persistent, scoop-seeking villains of the press at her son's wedding. On the Winona Fraulein Rasche, an interested spectator, lumbered to her cabin, rested...