"
We sat spellbound as Garrick unfolded the dreadful, awe-inspiring
possibilities of the machine behind the screen. He walked slowly
to the back of the room.
"Now, here I have one of the latest of the inventions of the
Wizard of West Orange--Edison," he resumed. "It is, as you perhaps
have already guessed, the latest product of this genius of sound
and sight, the kinetophone, the machine that combines moving
pictures with the talking machine."
A stranger stepped in from an outer office. He was the skilled
operator of the kinetophone, whom Garrick had hired. In a few
terse sentences he explained that back of a curtain which he
pulled down before us was a phonograph with a megaphone, that from
his booth behind us he operated the picture films, and that the
two were absolutely synchronized.
A moment later a picture began to move on the screen. Sounds and
voices seemed to emerge as if from the very screen itself. There,
before us, we saw a gambling joint operating in full blast.
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