Show ABOUT TALKING PICTURES the big mastako being mado made by tho the enthusiastic overenthusiastic over advocates ot of tile tho talking screen la Is in bol believing loving that motion pictures tire a theatrical device la Is a sni sad misconception and it may only load to the destruction of what la Is one of tile the mod mediums lunis ot of a true art for some kopro the truo true obJect objective ivo ot of tile the films has been lost or diverted because of this misconception motion pictures tire a development of printing not a branch of tile the dramatic tree the fact that they are shown in auditoriums does not mako make them theatrical in ground texture printed words carry their messages to the tha mind thru the eye and illustrations trat ions interpret the messages and perhaps clarify the images conveyed by the writer this was the original purpose of the motion picture those who have followed the history of the film Indu development tire are watching with dismay the tha turning of t this fine silent medium into a hodgepodge hodge podge of dramatic imitations after all a picture Is a 0 picture and it if the picture talks it becomes a picture plus a phonograph that and no more |