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TECHNICAL ASPECT OF THE CINEMATOGRAPH «TALKING FILM»
The Cinematographic industry is passing through a phase of restlessness and uncertainty. The talking film has appeared like a hurricane on the cinematographic horizon creating a general confusion in this important branch of human activity.
What will happen when the storm has blown over ? How many enterprises will have succumbed and how many will have survived ? Like all violent phenomenon it will be of short duration and, after the crisis, the right path will appear.
Why does the International Educational Cinematographic Institute take an interest in the great problem of synchronised and talking films ? Such a question could only be asked by those who do not take into account the immense possibilities of education, science and art which the modern cinematograph offers on the screen.
First of all because it is a question of art. The sound is part of the aciion, this is the opinion of those who favour synchronisation, and we agree with them. It is not a simple musical accompaniment but a valuable complement to vision. The mute art asserted itself on account of its atmosphere of silence and concentration which is usually associated with cinematographic projection. However, we consider that talking films can gain greater favour only through perfect synchronisation.
Orchestral accompaniment during the last decade has played a very important part in cinematographic performances. In every country attempts have been made to adapt the accompaniment to the subject projected and to modern orchestral instruments, but still it is often far from the original interpretation, chiefly because the method of rendering the music is at the mercy of any conductor of local orchestras. The talking film does not tend to abolish and suppress the orchestra but to give the film that multitude of sounds, songs and intimate expressions of local colour, which no orchestra can produce.
The cinematograph is gradually becoming an art. The talking film cannot impede the advance of the screen on this path, for in such a case it would be doomed to certain death. The power of art does not only impress, exalt, or move to emotion, but it suggests ideas and vision, determines feelings and state of mind, interpretations and sensations which rise beyond the pure and simple reality offered to the senses.
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