Machine Made Voices! (1939)

Titles read: “MACHINE MADE VOICES!“ Hollywood, California, United States of America. In a Hollywood CBS recording studio we see American film star actress Lucille Ball telling us she has just travelled cross-country by train. She holds two small amplifiers against her throat and mouths some words. The amplifiers transform the sound of a steam train coming from a record into ’steam train words’ picked up by Lucille’s larynx. I cannot make out all of them - the last are “Hello everybody“. Three technician men sit at a table wearing headphones and making notes. Lucille does another demonstration - this one seems to be ’cow words’ - very difficult to decipher. I guess it was still in the early stages! FILM ID:1196.1 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters his