THERE'S A DIFFERENCE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 179, 30 August 1929, Page 9

THERE'S A DIFFERENCE.

The other da.v a man said to me : Last night I wont to the talkies and they took niy monev under false pretences. There wasn't a word spoken in tJio biS picture." To which ] replicd : ' JJid j'ou read the newspaper advertisement hefore you decided to go, or did you just merelv scan the paper to see what uas showing?" I-Je admitted that he merelv loolced at the big heading, but didn't bother to read whether the picture was "sound svnehronjsod" or a "Talkie." There is a vnst diffcrenc^. Sound svnchronised nieans that tlu picture is silent except lor the musical aecompaniment, which is iccordod on the filni — not necessarJly gramophone records— and. maybe a few sounds. such as knockinrr on doors, gun-firing. etc. Wl^en itAs a talkie. the fact is advertised— 1 00 per cent talking or onlv part-talkiim fscores of people were disappointed when tliev saw "White Sbadows of the fcouth beas," which was advertised as sound-synchron ised . So it was. You hoard a delightful orohestral aecompaniment played hv a New York svmpliony orchestra. the singing and plaving of natives. but there was no dia- _ losuo. I lie- theatre-manngers aren't ' tiying to taho your monev under false preteiieox. Tliev advertise what thev are showing. and it doesn't tnke mucii energy on your part to read Ihe rlescriptions of the pictures to be shown. - ext time you go to the movies make sure vou know what you're going to see. and don't expcct a soimd svncliromsed picture to he a talkie or viceversa.