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Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers ( Volume: 35, Issue: 7, July 1940)
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Audience Noise as a Limitation to the Permissible Volume Range of Dialog in Sound Motion Pictures

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Publisher
SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type
Journal Article
Content Type
Original Research
Abbreviated Title
J SMPE
Volume
35, No. 7, pp. 48–58
Abstract
A series of noise measurements were made in theaters to determine the cause of low intelligibility of dialog recordings of wide volume range. Audience noise level was found to be a serious restriction, because it averages 8 db louder than film noise level and reduces the useful volume range by that amount. Audience noise is an extremely variable factor, as measurements made in the same theater showed it to be as low as the film noise in one instance and later to rise 14 db above this value. To secure good intelligibility, the volume range of the dialog must be compressed so that the softest-spoken words never are so low in level as to be seriously masked by audience noise.
Publication Date
1940-07-01
DOI
10.5594/J10068
ISSN
Print: 0097-5834
Link
https://doi.org/10.5594/J10068
Author(s)
W. A. MuellerWarner Bros. Pictures, Inc., Burbank, Calif.
Copyright
© 1940 Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, Inc.

Bibliographic Reference(s)

  • 1 Aalberg J. O. Stewart J. G. : “Applications of Non-Linear Volume Characteristics to Dialog Recording,” J. Soc. Mot. Pict. Eng. , XXXI (Sept., 1938 ), p. 248 . EXTERNAL
  • 2 Levinson N. : “A New Method of Increasing the Volume Range of Talking Motion Pictures,” J. Soc. Mot. Pict. Eng. , XXVI (Feb., 1936 ), p. 111 . EXTERNAL
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W. A. Mueller; Audience Noise as a Limitation to the Permissible Volume Range of Dialog in Sound Motion Pictures, Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers ( Volume: 35, Issue: 7, July 1940); SMPTE, 1940. Available at https://doi.org/10.5594/J10068
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