"TALKIE" FILMS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 239, 9 October 1928, Page 5

"TALKIE" FILMS.

THEifc FUTURE SIS CUSSED. " JL -» QUESTION OF EXPENSE. "The public does not want too much c ound/' said Mr. Thomas O'Brien when uiKUssing "talkie™ films. "For recording the speeches «»£ 1 anions people and. for special effects the "talkies' will ®ndoubtedly fiiul a place in f::ture entertainment. The new iui-a will not be the major par; o" a cinema entertainment, and the cost at the present time for the installation of some of the system# on tlie market is out <•! nil proportion to the value from an entertainment point of view. "People." said Afr. O'Brien, "will not wait lor the spoken word when a gesture or movement of tbe band will convey the meaning in a flash. The America" s always rush post haste into every innovation. That is their character, but they will reject novelties just as quickly as they will embrace them. "The present craze for the talkie" is the third in ten years, but the latest machines are a vast- improvement on their predecessors. We are all watehii'ff new idea.ibutitbere is no need for people new idea, but ■ lire is no need for .people to blindlv rush into huge expenditure when prices are dropping as different models of the plant necessary for tbe I 'talkie' conic on the market."