The Pursue Of Silent Cinema

Silent cinema was the first leap into cinema. Even to this day it is beyond me how people could just see a movie with no sound and think oh yeah thats interesting. I wonder what it would just be like to be inside the mind of a film maker in that day and age. Did they even think of how much more it would really add to their movies if there was sound. People who just casually watch movies know a good movie when they see it but to really know why is a whole other story. Sound plays such a massive role in films. Music alone has so many things to offer and variables to change not only in track choice but the volume its played at and when it is actually played at. Playing Out Of Touch by Hall and Oats to a big shootout scene would completly change the tone if instead Raining Blood by slayer was played. Dialouge was still present in silent films even if they were shown on slides. Even body language would almost susbstitue itself in place of spoken words. I …show more content…
Together the brothers were a force to be reckon with espically when Twentith merged with Fox. Through bribes and other tactics the brothers secured the finacial foothold they had. In the 1930s the brothers had paid off a man named Willie Bioff to keep theatres open. Over time the goverment would convict him of racketeering. Bioff would rat out one of the Schenk brothers who would spend four months five days in a federal prison. In 1945 he would be pardoned by President Truman. The schenk brothers tried to hold onto their econimic climate where others mocked them for their methods. As new audiences arose new competition from telivesion battled them. As the times changed and as the brothers failed to they would soon fall from grace. Even with their attempts to stay afloat signing deals with other companies and finace them the brothers could not stay afloat. The brothers would die alone and bitter but still within sight of the industry they helped