WESTERN, ELECTRIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 828, 23 November 1929, Page 25

WESTERN, ELECTRIC

SOUND SYSTEMS ARE WIDELY USED LIST OF COMPANIES Today the Western Electric Sound System including both the film and the disc methods is used by the following motion picture producers for making talking pictures:— Warner Bros. Pictures, Fox Film Corporation, Paramount, Famous Lasky, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, United Artists Corporation, Sono-Art Productions, First National Pictures, Universal Pictures, Victor Talking Company, Hal Roach Studios. Vita phone Corporation, Columbia Pic tures, I-laroJd Uloyd Corporation, Met

ropolitan Sound Studios, Christie Film Corporation, Firnatone Corporation, Tiff any-Stahl Productions, British and Dominion Films. More than 3,000 t heal res are nowequipped with the Western Electric Reproducing Equipment, and theatres in many foreign countries arc also wired with this system. Already the use of talking pictures is spreading to other fields. Great sales organisations are using talking pictures for sales demonstrations and in training salesmen. Educational institutions have already seen the extensive possibilities of this new medium in the realm of education. New uses for this great new triumph of science are being found every day.

ern girl. Appropriate 'music accompanies each glimpse. Other featurettes on similar lines are “In a Russian Cabaret,” “A Night in Madrid,” “The Huskin’ Bee,” “Tintypes,” “The Birth of Jazz,” “Musical Marionettes,” and “The Love Cup.”