ABSTRACT
The second combined programme of sound films has already managed to achieve a generally negative response. Thus, V. Sutyrin said at the conference on the production and technical aspects of sound: 'I think that I am expressing the general view if I say that the combined sound programme, even when compared to the first programme, is not a step forwards but a step backwards.' Writing in Pravda, N. Osinsky also gave the combined sound programme a negative assessment. It is, of course, not enough to say that the second sound film programme is unsatisfactory, we must say why it is unsatisfactory.
