This is an interesting graphic I found in a Popular Mechanics from February, 1936. Not only is it a concise graphical illustration of analog technology in early sound editing practice, it also displays a precise and depressing truth about moviemaking and the history of Hollywood cultural production: people with guns are more interesting than people without guns.

This is an interesting graphic I found in a Popular Mechanics from February, 1936. Not only is it a concise graphical illustration of analog technology in early sound editing practice, it also displays a precise and depressing truth about moviemaking and the history of Hollywood cultural production: people with guns are more interesting than people without guns.