Meeting Sound Film Competition Abroad

Last year, at your convention held in Toronto, I had the privilege of outlining to you in some detail the development of the sound film abroad. On that occasion, I tried to give you some approximate idea of what the potentialities of the foreign sound field were on the exhibition side, through a presentation of estimates of the number of theaters wired. I also endeavored to indicate what European producers were doing in the way of sound film production. It is my intention to pursue this thought today, stressing new conditions created by the displacement of silent by sound films, which in my belief are already beginning to create a severer competitive situation for American pictures abroad. And it is my further purpose to outline in a general way what our major film companies are doing, in an endeavor to retain their hold in the non-English speaking markets

Print ISSN

0097-5834

Published

1930-12

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J05587