The heart of the complicated "talkie" apparatus is the mixing room. A sound engineer at United Artists Studio is seen watching the scene through three thicknesses of glass that make sound-proof his cupola high above the stages. He regulates volume and tone, carefully mixing the elements of the voice of the "talkies". Photo date: June 14, 1929.
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