TALK ON "TALKIES"

NZ Truth, Issue 1262, 6 February 1930, Page 6

TALK ON "TALKIES"

ON a flying visit to the Dominion to see how "talkies" are on here, the ■ Western Electric Company's Australian managing-director, Mr. R. M. Hatfield, had a word to say •on the subject to "Truth"' in Wellington. Mr. Hatfield puts any faults m production down to the infancy of the art, but he claims the future is assured. "The present-day talking picture compares with the talkies of the future as the nickering screen images of twenty years ago correspond to the silent picture programmes of to-day," he declared: -"'":■ "The pVogress of the talking picture industry m the last few months m New Zealand and Australia has been little short of amazing. People have gone to theatres to criticise and have come away to marvel at' the 'development of this infant art." ' '