The Sounds of Early Cinema

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Richard Abel, Rick Altman
Indiana University Press, 03.10.2001 - 327 Seiten

The Sounds of Early Cinema is devoted exclusively to a little-known, yet absolutely crucial phenomenon: the ubiquitous presence of sound in early cinema. "Silent cinema" may rarely have been silent, but the sheer diversity of sound(s) and sound/image relations characterizing the first 20 years of moving picture exhibition can still astonish us. Whether instrumental, vocal, or mechanical, sound ranged from the improvised to the pre-arranged (as in scripts, scores, and cue sheets). The practice of mixing sounds with images differed widely, depending on the venue (the nickelodeon in Chicago versus the summer Chautauqua in rural Iowa, the music hall in London or Paris versus the newest palace cinema in New York City) as well as on the historical moment (a single venue might change radically, and many times, from 1906 to 1910).

Contributors include Richard Abel, Rick Altman, Edouard Arnoldy, Mats Björkin, Stephen Bottomore, Marta Braun, Jean Châteauvert, Ian Christie, Richard Crangle, Helen Day-Mayer, John Fullerton, Jane Gaines, André Gaudreault, Tom Gunning, François Jost, Charlie Keil, Jeff Klenotic, Germain Lacasse, Neil Lerner, Patrick Loughney, David Mayer, Domi-nique Nasta, Bernard Perron, Jacques Polet, Lauren Rabinovitz, Isabelle Raynauld, Herbert Reynolds, Gregory A. Waller, and Rashit M. Yangirov.

 

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Inhalt

Early Phonograph Culture and Moving Pictures
3
Doing for the Eye What the Phonograph Does for the Ear
13
Remarks on Writing and Technologies of Sound
32
The Lantern Lecture in Britain
39
The Voices of Silence
48
The Decline of CafésConcerts
57
The First TransiSounds of Parallel Editing
79
Sound the Jump Cut and Trickality
87
The Noises of Spectators or the Spectator as Additive
183
The Role of Sound
192
Early Sound Practices and Nationalism
198
The Double Silence of the War to End All Wars
205
Domitor Witnesses the First Complete Public Presentation
215
The Special Scores with Notes
241
The Motif of Barbarism in Breils
252
Appendix A Les Voies du silence
271

The Use of Sound
95
On the Trail
121
Debates about Sound Effects
129
That Most American of Attractions the Illustrated Song
143
Talker Pictures
156
The Sound of Meaning in Train
167
le déclin du caféconcert
279
Les transisons du cinéma des premiers temps
289
le spectateur comme
295
Appendix F Le double silence de la dernière guerre
309
Contributors
317
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Seite 270 - Le premier était de ne recevoir jamais aucune chose pour vraie que je ne la connusse évidemment être telle ; c'est-à-dire d'éviter soigneusement la précipitation et la prévention , et de ne comprendre rien de plus en mes jugements que ce qui se présenterait si clairement et si distinctement à mon esprit que je n'eusse aucune occasion de le mettre en doute.‎
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Seite 19 - Mr. Thomas A. Edison recently came into this office, placed a little machine on our desk, turned a crank, and the machine inquired as to our health, asked how we liked the phonograph, informed us that it was very well, and bid us a cordial good night.‎
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TitelThe Sounds of Early Cinema
EBSCO ebook academic collection
Early Cinema in Review: Proceedings of Domitor
HerausgeberRichard Abel, Rick Altman
Ausgabeillustriert
VerlagIndiana University Press, 2001
ISBN0253214793, 9780253214799
Länge327 Seiten
  
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