OFFICIAL WIRELESS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 May 1929, Page 3

OFFICIAL WIRELESS

TALKING FILAIS

BRITISH SYSTEM INVENTED

v British Official Wireless.)

RUGBY, May 15

Exceptional interest is being taken in England in the development of talking films, and importance is attached to the new British system of disc-recording invented by Air William Jeapes, who has been experimenting for over twenty years with sound films. It is claimed that the cinema can be equipped for sound films at one-fiftcenth of the cost of any foreign system. Tim method, which also eliminates the need for expensive sound-proof studios, was successful I \ demons.rated yesterday with a tall, film scene from ‘Journey’s End,” the much-discussed war play. SIR. ALAN COBHAM’S AIISSION TOUR OF GREAT BRITAIN. RUGBY, May 15. In a large Do Haviland 10-seater aeroplane, Sir Alan Cobham starts today on a three months’ tour of Great Brtiain with the object of arousing municipal interest in flying, in a hundred towns. In addition to flights which will bo given to local authorities, Sir Alan Cobham will bo able, through the generosity of an anonymous donor, to give 100,000 free flights to school children, and these will range from 50 to 300 in each town, according to the basis of school population. Sir Charles Wakefield yesterday christened Sir Alan Cobhanrs air liner “The Youth of Britain,” and in doing so said that while the immediate object of the tour was to investigate landing grounds and to demonstrate flying prospects to all the larger towns in Great Bri'ain, the direct appeal which would be made to hoys and girls would in the long run do even more to assist Imperial aviation. The day would come when flying, as a means of travel and as a sport, would be accepted as a'commonplace of ife. Youth would herald that day, and this tour worn! help enonhously in focussing the keenness and energy of youth upon flying. PRINCE' GEORGE HONOURED ' RUGBY. May 15. •Prinde George visited Edinburgh, today, to open the new Department of Zoology of the Edinburgh University. \fterwards, the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him.