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==Music==
 
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Auguste and Louis Lumiére had one of the first public exhibition of motion pictures that they filmed and projected by their Cinématographe in 1895 (Wierzbicki 2009)  
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Auguste and Louis Lumiére had one of the first public exhibition of motion pictures that were filmed and projected by their Cinématographe in 1895 (Wierzbicki, 2009).  There they employed a piano player at their first exhibition and eventually hired full orchestras to accompany their films. The earliest films were shown in Vaudeville theaters before the rise of the Nickelodeon beginning in 1905. With the release of feature length films, larger theaters were built and the Nickelodeons went into decline. Each of these stages had an impact on the relationship of sound and the silent film.
  
 
===Vaudeville===
 
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Odeion is a Greek word for a theater with a roof.
  
 
===Photoplay Music===
 
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Films were finished and then the scores were created and distributed to theaters before the release dates.
 
Films were finished and then the scores were created and distributed to theaters before the release dates.
  
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==Remediation==
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Professional silent films were remediated in the home movies before the 1980s when camcorders began to be able to capture sound. Home screenings of films though, are not typically accompabied by music, but rather conversation (Weirzbicki, 2009, p.19).
  
 
==References==
 
==References==

Revision as of 21:32, 25 April 2010

The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first commercially successful 'talkie', or film that has synchronized sound. By 1930, films that were produced without accompanying sound were becoming more uncommon. While films are occasionally made without a soundtrack as an aesthetic choice, the technology and conventions that were utilized to make silent films are no longer in use. Also exhibitors of films have theaters capable of playing sound films.

Flammability

Nitrocellulose or nitrate film is highly flammable and was used for motion picture film until the 1950s. If a projector was run too slowly, then there was an increased chance that the film could catch on fire due to the exposure of the intense light source utilized for production. Frame rates were not standardized, but when 'talkies' were introduced, frame rates became standardized. Acetate film came into prominence in the 1950.

Pantomime

Silent films tend to be over acted. Charlie Chaplin utilized mime and slapstick to create visual comedy.

Intertitles

There were 'scenario writers' and there were 'title writers' --> language and action composed by two different people. Language which was developed verbally first.

movement vs language. movement vs codified existence.

Music

Auguste and Louis Lumiére had one of the first public exhibition of motion pictures that were filmed and projected by their Cinématographe in 1895 (Wierzbicki, 2009). There they employed a piano player at their first exhibition and eventually hired full orchestras to accompany their films. The earliest films were shown in Vaudeville theaters before the rise of the Nickelodeon beginning in 1905. With the release of feature length films, larger theaters were built and the Nickelodeons went into decline. Each of these stages had an impact on the relationship of sound and the silent film.

Vaudeville

Nickelodeons

Odeion is a Greek word for a theater with a roof.

Photoplay Music

Films were finished and then the scores were created and distributed to theaters before the release dates.

Remediation

Professional silent films were remediated in the home movies before the 1980s when camcorders began to be able to capture sound. Home screenings of films though, are not typically accompabied by music, but rather conversation (Weirzbicki, 2009, p.19).

References

  1. Wierzbicki, J.E. (2009). Film music: A history. Routledge: New York.