“VICTORY” FILMED
JOSEPH CONRAD’S NOVEL Sea-going telephone poles, floating on end, attached to a string of rafts that stretched from the shore to far at 6ea, solved the problem of recording, for the first time, an all-talking motion picture on the open
picture on me open sea. The ingenious device was used by technicians during the filming of “Flesh of Eve,” an adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s “Victory,” in which Nancy Carroll is starred. Several of the important scenes in the production take place on the deck of a yacht,
Involving action between Miss Carroll and Richard Arlen, who plays the male lead. It was obvious that the microphones should be on the boat above the players, but it was impossible to move the huge Paramount sound-truck from the shore. Wires carried on the floating poles transmitted the voices of the principals from the “mike” to the portable laboratory and perfect results were obtained.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 902, 20 February 1930, Page 16
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