SOUND RECORDING PROBLEM
There are some sounds extremely difficult to reproduce effectively through the medium of the talking picture. The closing of an ordinary door would sound like the bursting of a bomb when recorded through the sensitive microphone, and for that reason doors and their frames have to be constructed of a special material which damps the reverberations. The scene in which the shower-bath was used was part of the Paramount all-talking picture, “The Marriage Holidav," in which Ruth Chatterton, Clive Brook and William Powell are featured. The shower, when turned on, sounded through the ear-phones like a machine-gun barrage. Theditliculty was eventually overcome by decreasing the water pressure and haying the water descend on a special pad of felt.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 730, 1 August 1929, Page 17
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121SOUND RECORDING PROBLEM Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 730, 1 August 1929, Page 17
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