Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1919 — English Writer Tells About Films That Actually Talk—Latest Edison Invention [ARTICLE]

English Writer Tells About Films That Actually Talk— Latest Edison Invention

Thomas Alva Edison, in his wonderful new invention, has given us pictures that not only move but talk, relates a London correspondent. , The kinetophone and the phonograph, and its effects are weirdly realistic. The machine is so constructed that the sounds of the voices of the actors in ~ the picture drama are reproduced in the most natural way. When figures appear to be walking toward the front of the stage their voices get louder as they get nearer to the audience, and softer as they retreat. , When a plate is smashed the noise of broken crockery Is distinctly heard. The notes of the piano 05 vidlin are reproduced ■ when the actor plays on one of these instruments, the expression and time being clearly marked. Whistling, singing, opening and shutting doors, etc., are all heard. Talking pictures are also to.be seen in a similar invention, the klinoplastikon. The effects here are most Wonderful. Dancers come from the wings, perform and sing, and retire to the wings again, and after applause come and bow their acknowledgments to the audience in the most natural manner. What is more, the stage is not in darkness, as in the case of ordinary bioscope pictures, but is perfectly light, and there is no screen. The illusion of living people singing and dancing as in a real theater is thus almost complete, for the figures do almost everything that a living artist can do.