Sound motion pictures : from the laboratory to their presentation (1929)

Record Details:

Title:
Sound motion pictures : from the laboratory to their presentation
Date:
1929
Publisher:
Garden City : Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.
Volume:
Sound motion pictures : from the laboratory to their presentation
Leaf #:
000310
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Technology
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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CHAPTER XII MUSIC Has the advent of sound affected the position of music in the motion picture theatre? Decidedly — and for the better! Nor am I thinking of musical synchronization, as such, alone. The result in that direction is known to anyone who has attended a handful of performances. Indeed, my mind is running off to the thought of how the level of appreciation is rising all over the country, what with the "transportation" of the best metropolitan orchestras to every town and village. I am conscious, too, less of present performance than of the future vision of a nation of music lovers trained by the leaders of our industry. Yet I must not run too far ahead of my story. If the public is to grow richer in understanding and enjoyment we must provide the means; and if we are to do that we must know how. Here, as elsewhere, new power brings new duties; we must go to school again, to learn what we may, not merely of the procedure of propagating the beauties of this art, but of the A B C of the art itself. So a brief inquiry in that direction may not be amiss. Sound is the principal medium through which most of the higher animals both express and excite emotion. As a warning or a menace sound is a cry of instinctive selfpreservation. Melody is the art of sound, and every emotion may be expressed through it: joy and sorrow, fear and longing. Music, in the largest sense, is made up of three elements: 282