Production Photos

At this instrument panel - the sound mixer's equipment - a visitor can hear dialogue as it is spoken by the actors and recorded on film. At the moment, however, she is in telephone communication with the Columbia sound truck outside the stage door where screen speech is caught on film.

Just another day on the Columbia Pictures Sunset/Gower studio lot, circa 1930's-1940's. These photos showcase moviemaking techniques of yesterday, highlighted by the original publicity captions as found in Sony Pictures Archives and Collections.