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Advent of Sound

Advent of Sound. " Talking film is as little needed as a singing book .”  Viktor Shklovsky "the silent pictures were the purest form of cinema“  "photographs of people talking“ Alfred Hitchcock.

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Advent of Sound

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  1. Advent of Sound

  2. "Talking film is as little needed as a singing book.”  Viktor Shklovsky • "the silent pictures were the purest form of cinema“ •  "photographs of people talking“ • Alfred Hitchcock

  3. of musical education. Theatres in many cities are offering synchronised mechanical music as a substitute for Real Music. If the theatre-going public accepts this vitiation of its entertainment program a deplorable decline in the Art of Music is inevitable. Musical authorities know that the soul of the Art is lost in mechanisation. It cannot be otherwise because the quality of music is dependent on the mood of the artist, upon the human contact, without which the essence of intellectual stimulation and emotional rapture is lost, Canned Music on TrialThis is the case of Art vs. Mechanical Music in theatres. The defendant stands accused in front of the American people of attempted corruption of musical appreciation and discouragement

  4. Sound on Film vs Sound on Disc • Synchronization: no interlock system was completely reliable, and sound could fall out of synch due to disc skipping or minute changes in film speed, requiring constant supervision and frequent manual adjustment • Editing: discs could not be directly edited, severely limiting the ability to make alterations in their accompanying films after the original release cut • Distribution: phonograph discs added expense and complication to film distribution • Wear and tear: the physical process of playing the discs degraded them, requiring their replacement after approximately twenty screenings

  5. Nonetheless, in the early years, sound-on-disc had the edge over sound-on-film in two substantial ways: • Production and capital cost: it was generally less expensive to record sound onto disc than onto film and the exhibition systems—turntable/interlock/projector—were cheaper to manufacture than the complex image-and-audio-pattern-reading projectors required by sound-on-film • Audio quality: phonograph discs, Vitaphone's in particular, had superior dynamic range to most sound-on-film processes of the day, at least during the first few playings; while sound-on-film tended to have better frequency response, this was outweighed by greater distortion and noise

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