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What is ironic about "Silent Movies?"
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They're not silent, music played.
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What were the initial problems with sound?
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Synchronization
Amplification Cost of Conversion Standardization |
Surely assholes can sit?
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What was Warner Brother's method to bring sound to cinema? What were their first short films like?
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Sound-on-disk
a phonograph or other disc to record or playback sound in sync with a motion picture. * Vitaphone introduced by Warner Brothers in 1926. First vitaphone shorts from New York: Vaudeville, songs etc. |
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What was Warner Brother's first sound feature? What were its characteristics?
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Don Juan (1926)
Lavish orchestral score sound effects but no dialogue |
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What is widely considered the first "talkie"? who starred in it
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The Jazz Singer (1927)
score songs bits of dialogue in between music by star performer Al Jolson |
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What was the first all talking picture?
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Lights of New York (1928)
pretty boring in a lot of ways. used planted microphones and such |
NY
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Besides Warner Brother's system what was the subsequent use of sound in films?
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Early efforts were made by DeForest with the photofilm.
In 1927, producer William Fox for Fox Movietone newsreels. 1927, Charles Lindbergh's solo flight fox movietone cameras were there. RCA creates RKO, adapts photophone |
somehow it has to do with some Anti-Semitic fuck
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What were the consequences of Sound in Cinema?
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1. Economically:
money to revamp cameras, tudios, cinemas. 2. Aesthetics, couldn't move the camera. 3. Exporting, language barrier e.g two Dracula movies one English one Spanish. |
Ears are expecting
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