Sound Miracles
Fox Movietone Man Visits New Zealand SCOPE OF NEW PICTURES 1 , ! • ■'TWRitf TY-FIVE years ago i | ”*■ the dingy, musty barn of I a theatre, until its lone piano | i player and illustrated songs its | j silent screen and crude one- j reel Indian thrillers. “TO-DA.Y, luxurious motion J 1 picture theatres everywhere, j i and the miracle of miracles. — j ! the film you hear and. see.” \ r ! The speaker was Mr. Charles Munro, of Fox Movietone, who has brought to New Zealand the first of the new “talkie” films to be seen in this country. It is possible that the sample will be screened during Mr. Munro's short stay hut, of course, the sound effects cannot be heard until apparatus has been installed. It is understood that it will not be long before experts arrive from Australia to begin the work in various theatres. In an interview given to The Sun, Mr. Munro said: “We still remember
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19290126.2.187.6
Bibliographic details
Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 572, 26 January 1929, Page 25
Word Count
159Sound Miracles Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 572, 26 January 1929, Page 25
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in