Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1917 — New Talking “Movies.” [ARTICLE]

New Talking “Movies.”

Application has been made for a patent on a very elaborate device which would produce a combination of the cinematograph and the phonograph to give us moving pictures wherein the characters not only move but speak. The idea of such pictures is not new, but the difficulties of synchronizing have hitherto proved Insurmountable. By synchronizing is meant the exact coincidence of the motion picture, projected by one machlpe, with the speech supposed to proceed from the characters, which is produced by quite another. Unless the speech ponies at the right instant, the result is laughable rather than impressive. In the proposed device the actual speech of the character is transmitted by wireless telephone to a phonograph whose complex receiving mechanism is synchronized with the movements of the moving picture camera.