Difference between revisions of "Silent Film"

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The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first commercially succesful 'talkie', or film that has synchronized sound. By 1930, films that were produced without accompanying sound were becoming more uncommon
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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==
 
==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  
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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.  
 
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When 'talkies' were introduced, frame rates became standardized.  
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"Nitrocellulose was used as the first flexible film base, beginning with Eastman Kodak products in August, 1889. Camphor is used as plasticizer for nitrocellulose film, often called nitrate film. It was used until 1933 for X-ray films (where its flammability hazard was most acute) and for motion picture film until 1951. It was replaced by safety film with an acetate base."
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==Pantomime==
 
==Pantomime==
 
   
 
   
Silent films tend to be over acted.  
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Silent films tend to be over acted. Charlie Chaplin utilized mime and slapstick to create visual comedy.  
  
 
==Intertitles==
 
==Intertitles==
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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)  
 
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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===Vaudeville===
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===Nickelodeons===
  
 
===Photoplay Music===
 
===Photoplay Music===

Revision as of 21:21, 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 they filmed and projected by their Cinématographe in 1895 (Wierzbicki 2009)

Vaudeville

Nickelodeons

Photoplay Music

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


References

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