Music + Film Quiz #2 (Part 1)

Tri-Ergon

1919 – A system that photographed sound waves onto film

Phonofilm

1922 – invented.

Made of vacuum tube that would push the electronic sound through speakers (ex amplification)

Fox Movietone Newsreels

Used the “Sound-On-Film” method.

Recorded soundwaves directly onto the film.

First successful sound films.

First Hit Song

1926 – “Charmaine” by Erno Rape

from the film “what Price For Glory”

“The Jazz Singer”

1927 – first film synchronized dialogue.

used the vitophone system.

musical score supervised by Louis Silvers

Vitophone Sound System

synchronized sound with cameras recorded on 17′ discs

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downside of sound recorded onto film:

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no need for live music = unemployed musicians

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silent movie star voices now heard – does voice match the face etc?

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microphone boom

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invented to reach the awkward places, especially for outdoor recording

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why were cameras placed in sound-proof cubicles?

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what were the downsides?

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to eliminate the noises of recording being picked up on the microphones

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the subicles limited camera angles

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were claustrophobic

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early microphones

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hard to use.

large and awkward.

picks up everything (omni-directional)

often distorted.

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what was the movie standard?

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ultimately fox’s sound-on-film system

became the movie standard

1928 brought about…

the transition from silent to sound films.

all 6 major film studios agreed to use the sound-on-film system.

cameras had soundproofed casing.

first all talking sound feature

“Lights of New York”

(Warner Bros – 1928)

first sound film featured in England

“Blackmail”

(Alfred Hitchcock – 1929)

featured a silent version and a sound version to accommodate all theaters