Where whispers become gargantuan: The powerful voice amplifying apparatus used on the soundproof stages at the Paramount Studio in Hollywood for synchronizing spoken dialogue with "talking" motion pictures is capable of making a fly's footfalls sound like the crash of thunder. This tremendous amplification factor, however, is not for noise-making purposes, but to give a perfect and life-like reproduction to the human voice when heard on the screen. Photo date: September 3, 1928.
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