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telephoning. This fact is very much related to the characteristic
of this medium, namely that it demands participation of our
senses and faculties. Unlike radio, it cannot be used as
background. Since the telephone offers a very poor auditory
image, we strengthen and complete it by the use of all the
other senses. When the auditory image is of high definition, as
with radio, we visualize the experience or complete it with the
sense of sight. When the visual image is of high definition or
intensity, we complete it by providing sound. That is why, when
the movies added sound track, there was such deep artistic
upset. In fact the disturbance was almost equal to that caused
by the movie itself. For the movie is a rival of the book, tending
to provide a visual track of narrative description and statement
that is much fuller than the written word.
In the 1920s a popular song was “All Alone by the