BackThe Sounds of Early Cinema
(book in English)
by Richard Abel
- Type
- Studies
- Subject
- Silent Cinema
- history of cinema, early cinema, sound
- Publishing Date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Collection
- (no collection)
- Language
- English
Relative size
- Physical desc.
- Paperback • 344 pages • 23 €
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm) - ISBN-10
ISBN-13 - 0-253-21479-3
978-0-253-21479-9 - User Ratings
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Book Presentation:
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).
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