THE “TALKIES.”

Hokitika Guardian, 4 January 1929, Page 7

THE “TALKIES.”

lIA V E THEY OMK TO STAY. “Tin* “talkie film lias come to stay ami I'wry p'ciiire showman lias to ge to work with I Itr necessary apcoiiu nit'll Is. otherwise ho v. ill have to shat town.” This is u l v| iho 11-oi. \Y. Mar’s. of Sydney, stated on his arrival al A ioklainl l»v the Aorangi. Mr Marks was oliiiiruian of the l oyal Coinin'.s•ion on the mol ion picture iiidi:*-try of \ns(talia, whoso repuT was adopted iv Iho ('oinnjon woall h (lovornnmnl. ■to 1 1 :i• ■ insl, f'liipk toil an extended four of Amorim. -Kngland and Iho Continonl lo m:'k<' investigations in oonno'd ipn with Iho (i lin world. Mr Marks dock,rod that the “talkie” (i in* was." rcv< lafion and in Anuria and Ihitain there was a big movement to meet I'm new demand.. Cox Films one of I lie loaders ol the picture world—were 'milding sound proof

“talkie” studios at Hollywood at a oo>t of “I.B'V'.{VKI —this in addition to 13S acres of other studios. In far t. lie said, very few films would be made in America now that were not “talkies.”

“The sound news-reel is also a revelation.” d: dared Mr Marks. “I saw one ‘talkie’ film—the opening of the Tyne Bridge by the King. You could hear the hoof bents of the horses, the cheering of the crowd, and the perfect delivery of a speech by the King.

“Another thing is the music,” said Mr Marks. “In Broadway. New York ■•!! the mus.'c is provided 'hv ‘the talkie--.’ music ‘canned’ from Hollywood months before. This is a tragedy to musicians, lmt how are you going to stop the progress ol a now and great invention? However, it will he a godsend 'to picture proprietors ‘outback’ because the ‘talkie’ will provide the music.

“i have carefully studied the motion picture industry in the leading countries of the world,” said Mr Marks, in enndusion, “and 1 am forced to the conoluson that the ‘talkie’ film is the thing of the future in the picture world. It, is simply perfection, and the silent film seems to lie doomed. Tn America people stand in queues for ‘tallffe’ films, and the opinion there is that the silent film is out of date.”