An Entertainment City

The development of sound motion pictures, utilizing electrical reproduction of sound, has caused a convergence of the technic of radio broadcast transmission and reception and the technic of the sound motion picture studio and theater. The approaching advent of home sound motion pictures and television broadcasting may be expected to bring the engineering methods still closer together. — Paralleling this engineering approach, there are indications of a similar and coöperative integration of the corresponding industries. The establishment of a great entertainment center in New York City, based on this evolutionary plan, is described in the paper. In this “Entertainment City” are to be combined radio broadcasting studios, recording facilities, auditoriums, executive offices of corresponding entertainment enterprises, and a group of large theaters and concert halls of various types.

Print ISSN

0097-5834

Published

1931-02

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J01527