TALKIE FILMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 9 October 1928, Page 6

TALKIE FILMS.

DKA.UA.TI.ST I)JSCOUNTS SCARE. (Unitod Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). LONDON, October G. One of the big nourishing cinema studios, that built tip at Ex tree, fiiteen miles from London. with a flare of trumpets, is now shucked at the si. Idea publicity that is Iming accorded the “Talkie” films. The-effect of the dramatic anuoimcem;but made by .prominent playwrights ami notably Air Lonsdale that the silent iilius are dead, has been like a liarrage ot machine guns. I lie directors, artists, electricians, carpenters, decorators, musicians and all the vast inha.bitants of the studios are' wondering whether Elstroe, in which hundreds of thousands have been sunk, is already to collapse like a pack of cards .

Cosmo Hamilton the famous dramatist, decares to-dav that the most perfect tallies will never kill the silent Jilin. After the first flush of novelty, he says, they will take a second place in the programme in the cinemas, and will be placed among the news reeks and the comics. They will only be used, he declares for the purpose of introducing, the brief remarks of some famous person, an operatic solo, a duet or a chorus. “The vast majority of cinema patrons,” says Cosmo Hamilton, “do not want nerve-racking sounds. However perfect they become, their very perfection will render them less aecepta le to a public that- is eager for a story of movement. 'Hie thrills and surprises must then he made .subservient to talk, and the elaborate reproduction of sounds.”

He could conceive' nothing more frightful than being asked to sit for a couple of hours, without music-., in order to listen, to a play spoken indifferently—and probably with a hideous gramophone accent—by the most famous film stars, who must be used by the talkies, until a new school was turned out. Nothing could be more hideous to a film-lover than being compelled to listen to the tramping of feet, the traffic roar the jangling of keys, knocks on the door, harsh nasal voices, the shrieks of gunmen. cowboys, bonds vamps and bathing belles; the ugly voices and illiteracy, and to a roar of curses. He would say. emphatically, that the silent film would never die. The “Talkies” were childish and were novices that had come home a decade too late. COMING TO AUSTRALIA SOON. OTTAWA, October 6. The talking and sounding c-inemas will he ii.nsta.Mocl in twenty-one theatres in. the principal Australian cities during the New Year.