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Constellation

Boom mics, Clara Bow and musicals

Created by Matt Millikan
Chief Astronomer

Featured in this constellation

The Artist

Wings

Dorothy Arzner and the boom mic

The Wild Party

The Broadway Melody

The Boys from Boise

The microphone was called the "terror of the studios" when sound films were introduced in the late 1920s, but after initial resistance Hollywood fully embraced the new technology.

Dorothy Arzner and the boom mic → The Wild Party