Word: soundproofing
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...teach canaries to sing, trainers spend laborious months playing flutes, violins, water organs, chimes. Last week Milton Metfessel reported to Science that eight canaries born & reared in soundproof cages in a University of Southern California psychology laboratory are now producing all the effects in a trained canary's repertoire: hollow roll, hollow bell, schockel, flutes, water roll, bass roll, glucke, glucke roll, water glucke, deep bubbling water tour, bell roll, bell tour, bell glucke...
...condition that no pictures be taken while court was in session. To minimize confusion the five major newsreels-Paramount, Hearst Metrotone, Fox, Pathe, Universal- jointly operated a single sound-camera, each company receiving a print of all pictures taken. The camera, electrically controlled and housed in a soundproof hood, was lodged in the balcony, about 35 ft. from the judge's bench. A microphone was hidden behind an electric fan over the jury...
...weevily wheat which had previously been warmed to rouse the larvae to activity. The vacuum tubes were specially constructed to furnish a high constancy of current flow, eliminate all noise except the minute munchings of the weevils in their microcosms, and the whole was enclosed in a soundproof, rubber-mounted metal case. When a container of wheat free of weevils was substituted for the infested grain, the apparatus remained silent...
...soundproof room that Westinghouse researchers call the "trick parlor," a knot of newshawks waited. The "trick parlor' is in the East Pittsburgh laboratories of Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. On demonstration day last week it was pitch dark. Scheduled performer was Westinghouse's versatile "Ignitron" tube, invented by Drs. Joseph Slepian, 44, and Leon Robert Ludwig...
...poses between. "Inkers" place a transparent square of celluloid on the drawing and outline it boldly in ink on the celluloid. The first square is superimposed on a painted background. A picture is taken. A second is superimposed; and so on. While the film is run off in a soundproof room, an orchestra plays the score. Disney talks for Mickey Mouse. Five other men put in other dialog and sound imitations. But if the simple explosion of Disney's comic idea has missed fire somewhere in the translation, the whole thing is done over. All his time, energy...