WIRELESS WONDERS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 823, 18 November 1929, Page 11

WIRELESS WONDERS

HOME TALKING PICTURES CHEAP MOVIE CAMERAS Talking pictures for tile homo. ; This is the latest development oE entertainment in America. Mr. H. c. 'Walker, general manager and a director of Harringtons, Limited, Australia anil New Zealand, hopes to secure some of the home talking ; plants on his visit to the United ’ States. He is a through passenger on the | Aorangi and is on his way to Hollywood and New York to investigate the latest developments in talking pictures, radio and photography. Mr. Walker predicts all sorts of marvellous changes in the wireless world ill the next few years. For one thing people think that before long the present gramophone disc will be done away with and that famous concert artists will ting from the lilm. ••With all these modern inventions is it merely a matter of making them cheap enough for the people, said Mr. Walker. Television —seeing by wireless—is another development of radio, which ho will investigate. This is still in comparative infancy, hut his firm ' has already quoted broadcasting stations for the apparatus. The principal development in photography today is movie cameras for the amateur and great advances have taken 1 place In this department. Mr. Walker is ol‘ the opinion that business in Australia will ho better. A dull period followed the introduction of new taxation, and then the general election upset everyone. The outlook was brighter when he left j Sydney.