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QUEER SIGHTS IN SOUND PICTURE STUDIO The sudden suspension of all movement and noise when the notes of the gaming horn sound in a talking picture studio, is one of the many Queer incidents that have become commonplace in Hollywood. Studio carpenters, electricians, stage attendants, actors, officials and anyone who happens to be about the studio at the time stop dead in their tracks and a deathly silence reigns. Rarely does a talkie scene take more than five minutes to film, though it often takes 10 days to prepare, and the slightest unwanted noise may spoil the most carefully prepared work. JThe filming of the techni-colour “Follies” scenes in sound for “The Dance of Life.” a Paramount all-talk-ing and singing picture _ featuring Nancy Carroll and Hal Skelly, proved particularly difficult, but Paramount executives state that they will be the most spectacular yet produced for a
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 724, 25 July 1929, Page 14
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147SUSPENDED ANIMATION Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 724, 25 July 1929, Page 14
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