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The Human Voice and the Silent Cinema
Journal of Popular Film, 1975This paper traces the history of motion pictures from Thomas Edison's vision in 1887 of an instrument that recorded body movements to the development cf synchronized sound-motion films in the late 1920s. The first synchronized sound film was made and demonstrated by W. K. L. Dickson, an assistant to Edison, in 1889.
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The Ancient World in Silent Cinema
2013In the first four decades of cinema, hundreds of films were made that drew their inspiration from ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt and the Bible. Few of these films have been studied, and even fewer have received the critical attention they deserve. The films in question, ranging from historical and mythological epics to adaptations of ancient drama ...
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Performing Spiritualism in the Silent Cinema
2018The silent film era, usually defined as 1895-1927, coincided with a revival of belief in spiritualism in America. Desperate to find meaning in the deaths of the Great War and the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic, the bereaved sought contact with the dead and evidence of an afterlife.
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Italians in Colombian silent cinema 1910–26: The Di Domenico brothers’ film memoirs and filmography
Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, 2022Camilo Martín-Flórez
exaly
2017
Ozu Yasujiro wanted to make a “new form” of silent cinema before it disappeared, something sophisticated in a fragile medium that was forced to do obvious things. His goal was to create, for the first and only time in Japanese cinema, films in which audible dialogue was displaced in favor of the intertitle as a form of “visual repartee.” After Western ...
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Ozu Yasujiro wanted to make a “new form” of silent cinema before it disappeared, something sophisticated in a fragile medium that was forced to do obvious things. His goal was to create, for the first and only time in Japanese cinema, films in which audible dialogue was displaced in favor of the intertitle as a form of “visual repartee.” After Western ...
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INtroduction: The Silent Cinema
Journal of Popular Film and Television, 1987openaire +1 more source