ESPERANTO

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 520, 24 November 1928, Page 25

ESPERANTO

A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE NEEDED IN TALKIE PRODUCTIONS “Esperanto will at last become an established fact,” says Mr. Clarence Brown, producer of “The Trail of *98,” in discussing the future of the talking film. “Talking pictures will make it absolutely necessary for the world to have a common language. The success of the talking films in this country will spread to Europe and South America, and unless Esperanto is understood generally, an international exchange of talking pictures will be impossible. “The idea of bringing the adoption of Esperanto to a head is not as farfetched as it seems at first glance. The world has been on the point of accepting a universal tongue for some time, and it needs but little more to bring on general acceptance. “It is said that Esperanto is learned easily, and in an exceptionally short time. A person does not have to be a born linguist to grasp it immediately. “The future great pictures of England, America, France, Germany, Russia , Sweden, and Italy will be confined to the countries in which they are made, unless the same dialogue is spoken in each. The producers realise this, and steps will be taken immediately to promote Esperanto, so that when the time comes in the not-distant future, when every theatre of the world shows talking movies, the whole world will be able to understand the same picture."