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Theory of the film : (character and growth of a new art) (1952)

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Title:
Theory of the film : (character and growth of a new art)
Date:
1952
Publisher:
London : Dennis Dobson Ltd.
Volume:
Theory of the film : (character and growth of a new art)
Leaf #:
00012
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
May 15, 2025
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XV OPTICAL TRICKS, COMPOSITES, CARTOONS Significance of camera tricks; Masks; Film comedy; You can't kill a photograph; Psychology and length; Cartoons. 185 XVI SOUND 194 A tragic prophecy; Blind alley; Prophecy; What do we demand?; The acoustic world; Discovery of noise; Dramaturgy of sound; Sound speaks up; Sounds as dramatis persona; Influence of accompanying music; A battle of sounds; Problem of the sound play; The picture forms the sound; Silence; Silence and space; Dramaturgical function of sound in the shot; Sound-explaining pictures; Asynchronous sound; Intimacy of sound; Sound cannot be isolated; Educating our ear; Sounds throw no shadow; Sounds have no sides; Sound has a space colouring; Basic problem of sound reproduction; Sounds cannot be represented by images; Sound montage; Sound dissolves; Asynchronous sound effects; The most expressive instrument; Asynchronous picture, synchronous sound. XVII DIALOGUE Speech seen and speech heard; Silence is action; Audible gesture of speech; Why language dubbing is impossible; Esthetic law of impermeability; The film shot and the word; Speech as an irrational sound effect. 221 XVIII PROBLEM OF THE SOUND COMEDY Improbable sounds; Speech grotesques; Problem of the musical grotesque; Film music; Charlie Chaplin's secret; Perspectives of the sound film; Sparing use of sound; Rule of the word; Film narrator. 232 XIX REMARKS ON THE COLOUR FILM AND STEREOSCOPIC FILM Moving colours; Colour cutting; Stereoscopic films; Coloured cartoons. 242