10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TALKING FILM»
Discover the use of
talking film in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
talking film and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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"You ain't heard nothin' yet": the American
talking film, ...
Presents a history of the sound motion picture in America from its birth to the decline of the studio system
The following inquiry was suggested by a feeling of uneasiness that every talking
film arouses in the author and that is not appeased by increased acquaintance
with the new medium. It is a feeling that something is not right there: that we are ...
... one talking film at a time, with the rest of the program provided by the local
exhibitor. Twice- weekly changes were the rule, even though most theaters
changed their other films at least three times a week. During the summer of 1908
at the ...
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French
Film Theory and Criticism: A History/anthology, 1907-1939
Now, let's come to some specific conclusions, several principles which will serve
as the basis of our theory of talking film. Let's write them down, like a
schoolmaster or rather a school boy, from first to last. 1. The silent film was the art
of ...
5
Film Theory: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies
This produced the "wordless talking film, the shy film, the film garnished with the
creakings of doors and the tinkling of spoons; the moaning, shouting, laughing,
sighing, crying, but never the talking film," as the Provencal dramatist expressed ...
Philip Simpson, Andrew Utterson, Karen J. Shepherdson, 2004
And, as an example of the fidelity of talking film reproduction, a man enters
through a door, and as he closes it the sound of music coming through the
doorway dies away. Meanwhile players are being selected for Behind That Door,
another ...
7
Hollywood on the Hudson:
Film and Television in New York ...
Britain offered the Vivaphone, while in America the Cinephone, Picturephone,
and Cameraphone all tried for a piece of the elusive talking-film market.4 “In
producing a talking picture where several actors are involved,” David Hulfish
wrote in ...
8
History of British
Film (Volume 4): The History of the ...
... but their first real sound production was Asquith's A Cottage on Dartmoor in
1930, the part-talking film recorded on Klangfilm Tobis equipment. New Era had
Edwin Greenwood's full-talking R.C.A. The Co-Optimists in November; W.P.
showed ...
9
Film Essays and Criticism
Chaplin and Veidt8 have spoken out in vehement opposition to the talking film.
Adolph Zukor, the president of Paramount, has said, "So-called sound film will
never suppress silent film ... I still believe that our future lies with silent film!
For anyone who has some knowledge of the complicated technique of sound
recording, this film is a marvel. . . . In Broadway Melody, the talking film has for the
first time found an appropriate form: it is neither theater nor cinema, but
something ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TALKING FILM»
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talking film is used in the context of the following news items.
Kodak, Hollywood talking film guarantees
Hollywood is great at finding new life in something old, from the 200-plus times Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed on screen to Fast & Furious 7 coming to a ... «Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Jul 14»
The first talking film of 'Alice In Wonderland' was shot in Fort Lee
"At Metropolitan, you could make a talking picture if you weren't Warner Brothers or Paramount," says Rutgers film professor Richard Koszarski, author of ... «The Star-Ledger - NJ.com, Mar 10»
