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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1932.

RADIO

THE TALKIE” O.B. ·

"HOW AN OUTSIDE "TALKIE" FILM IS MADE

ONE NIGHT'S WORK: ONE MINUTE

ON THE SCREEN

FEATURES

drives two generators, one giving tus down to the fair, and worked | TO-DAYS WIRELESS 650 to 7:30 p.m.---

there several pights, with a special crowd of extras. The sound trucks were left cut in the street, with cables running into the fair,

about 18 volta, and the other about These are used for 230 volts. charging batteries. A bank of ac emulators, totalling 110 volts, used for driving the motor alter- antor which supplies power for the machines. This alternator runs interior sound shooting is fraught

à silence cabinet, and is started up with an. automatic starter. If de-

"Night has fallen, and Limehouse It is a very expensive undertaking lies wrapped in its enveloping to shoot exteriors, and all possiblesired, the petrol engine may be folds. The pitter-pat of Oriental shots even

exterior used to start it, tha driving power fees has, erased, and the only sound ↑ BEADOS,

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Apparcat

On the whole." concludes our

informant, this business of ex-

with very many difficultins--we have far more preparations to nuke. with the camera's and lights, than the B.B.C. have with its 0.B.

are done inside, on the afterwards being taken from the fand, as I have said, it is only em- borne on the still air is the murmur

'floor," Sometimes, however, we batteries, Thas, for working, & of the river as it swirls its oily

come herons scenes that cannot be exile is connected between the two ani Wity past has mysterious

faked on

AB-Buch as this gloomy craft moored to the shore.

trucks, the alternator is started up, one we have just done. We are Not even the measured beat' of the

The power for the polies patrol can be heard, and doing, a down-river chase by river and we are off. quiet, profound and eerie, reigns police of some kriminals, and this picture lighting is provided by a includes a great amount of diaparate power truck, which, in the over all. Suddenly, the unrennny j

case of to-night's work, is operat stillness is disturbed by an alivalogue with a river background."

ing on the shore. All the power lor lighting is direct current, and that for driving the motors is alternating

noise--the unwonted silence of that

Compact Ampilfers. sinister spot is broken. Awny down' the rivery in the distaner enn

"On ourarians such as this, we beard the chug-chug" of a motor-, use, of courts, a special portable The policeman standing in recording equipment. This is real. ly replies of the apparates used the shadow of a doorway pricks ¦

in the studio, muunted in special ap his ears. The noise does not sound like a police-launch, and be vans, or trucks, as we call them. These particular trucks-which are

bout

barked upon when no other course is open to us. Läst summer we had to spend two weeks on the Grand Union Canal, near Watford. There, the business of recording dialogue spoken on the boats was grently simplified by the use of the direc tional microphone. Incidentally, our experience on that picture showed us that when using this miarophone near water, great care was necessary to avoid some un- pleasant distortion, caused by the

"It is possible to drive the re- cording trucks along, with the microphone on top, and the cameras reflection of the sound waves from mounted on the tail-board of the recording truck, cand regord and

the surface of the water.

"Well, things seem to be moving

is curious to know whruzes it comes. Ar American origin, are made as photograph a moving object. For again, so i suppose I must get busy

Moving to the edge of the wharf,

strange sight meets his eyes,

In the middle of the river, hnth- "rd in a glaring white light is a launch, packed with policemen. Behind the launch is a second craft containing more men-strange men, all silent, gazing with terrife con- centration as the launch in front Heavens Is that a machine-gun in the second bont-and what is that in a third vessel bringing up the rear? The policeman on the wharf in just about to turn and run to the nearest 'phone, when a smile breaks over his face. Hist manner relaxes, and he follows with Interest the strange proces sion, till it passes round a bend i the river and is lost to view. Whatj he hud just seen, and failed to re-j cognise at Brat, 0.3.

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Talkie

small as possible as is compatible instaner, if you saw the film Sally once more," with the amount of gear to be fitted in our Ally, you may remember in them....

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that at the beginning & the pic tarp you see a horse and trap mov ing along a country "lone, with Sally and her boy friend sitting The dialogue talking in the trap.

in this case was recorded by means

:

"The trucks are very handy, and in spite of their weight aro xceed- ingly fast-they will de 60 m.p.b. if necessary, with perfect safety for the delicate apparatus inside Look inside this one--the recording of these trucks.

Another. B., which we did You will see there is an truck. amplifier rack, containing the am-recently was one in a Fun Fair, car Marble Arch. In the picture, recording plifiers -- two machines (one for emergency use). The Sign of Four, the hero and & powen control panel, and a com.heroine spend some time in the fun plete set of spares of everything fair, and the girl is eventually kid- Six microphones are carried in napped. We took all our appara special compartments, and 2,000

sound

Our informida: smiles and dis- appears into the sound truck, and we regretfully any good-bye. Any- way, it's late and cold, and it's comfortable in bed than more standing about by the river at this' time of night. Let us leave these stringe people, and go home to bed. in a few months time. we shall see and hear at our local eine- mas just what has been done to- night, and we shall be surprise to find that one complete sight's work. takes oxactly one minute on the

sorcen

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feet of film in magazines, to say nothing of portable amplifers. HAVE YOU HEARD THESE? microphone tripods, and a host of accessories. All these things are stored away in their appropriate places. ready for use when wanted.. Let us follow this strange assort-The power for driving the recorder mont down the river, Round that and the picture cameras is sup- band, where we had lost sight ofplied from the the power truck. them, wo and them halted..which is over on the other boat. boy hats one on the second

cainem

"C.K. for sound 7" calls

clse.

At the back of the truck are Tron drums of cable These orc

Lont.O.. for me," says an in- dividual who seems to be nursing the machine-gun-only it isn't a used for connecting the micro- machine gun we sit's a movie Phones and camera intors in the truck. All connections are made with multi-pin plugs, so that to "O.K." comes, the reply. Coming does not take more than a few

connect up the apparatus for u Bearer, wo me and understand all minutes. For exterior, werk of this The policemen " are actors all "made up," and looking just like nature, it is often impracticable

the first m to

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I have to sling microphones over the real thing. In the second boat are the director, caftiera men, sound the players, na is done in the studio, and the microphone boom. recording engineers, and 'property

(or derrick, is too cumbersome to men. They are all perched up on

bring with us. In this case, we use top of what appears to be a van-

a directional microphone. This is yes, so it is. It is van-it must

nothing more than have been slung on to that boat-

a very large they certainly couldn't drive it under-shaped structure, measuring

87,85 along the gangway very easily In up to 6 feet in diameter. It is

60,13 parabolic in section, and is exactly 507

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SCRAP THE BIG SHIP.

„(♡Batiuued from Pope 1.)

One thing there is to be said for the capital ships of to-day. Ameri- ca will stick to them, an Ameri- can Admiral once observed, because America can afford to pay for them and other nations cannot. That re- mark was made 18 months or sc

ago.

America feels a little differently about paying for any unnecessary Juxury just now. Her Admiral, like most of ours, "are still fighting for the big ship, and if you set nothing but Admirals at Gehors to tell you whether the big why? is aggressive you will get for answer a thunklerous Nu. But the politi cian, and the elector behind him, has the last word. "

DECIDE THE ISSUE.

Great Britain, in this respect can probably decide the issue. If we pressed for the abolitition of thể big ship-we abolished five out of the existing 20 at the London Conference of 1930 in concert with the United States and Japan-the American people would have" # chance of beating their Admirals and would almost certainly lake in and Japan, if only on financial grounds, would find very hard to stand out alonë.

What should we mniere I wish every M.P, would read Admiral Bir Herbert Richmond's book es Economy and Naval Security.'! He would find there impressive ar gumenta for the limitation of all ships of war afloat to 7,500 tonn. Bilt call it 10,000. Call it, if you' like, 12,000 to allow for heavier armour than the 10,000-ton cruiser can carry. Y

The case for scrapping the tapitel. |ship as at present "understood in uree,

answerable, provided, always, of course, that all the nations, Dosser ing them scrap them together..