SLOW-MOTION PICTURES

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 33, 9 February 1931, Page 8

SLOW-MOTION PICTURES

{Interesting possibilities arc suggested by the cabled announcement that the first movietone picture of a professional billiards, match was made in London at a session of the match between Lindrum and Newman. Newman made 13,536, including a break of 995 full, and Lindrum made 5097. One wonders what were the sounds recorded. Were they just the click of the balls, or was some announcer explaining each shot as if it were a boxing match: "Newman is getting in some very effective work with his left, or I should say his cue. In that last break Lindrum had his opponent against the ropes—l mean the cushion." Did Lindrum and Newman discuss the weather, or debate politics, or did they, like Portia, call for music while the game was played:' Let music sound ... Then, if he lose, ho makes a swanJike end, Fading in music: Or did Lindrum just count aloud

while Newman's break mounted slowly to 995? Perhaps it is intended to reverse the process by which slowmotion pictures are shown, and reel this one rapidly till Newman's -cue is working like a shuttle while a band plays a quick-step. But what of the cheers of the crowd, the mass noises that give us the atmosphere when a boxing match is broadcast? If the movietone producer's ingenuity has made a success of this, he may next try his skill with sound pictures of other great contests —a chess match, or an egg-laying competition.