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PROBLEM OF SOUND RE PRODUCTION 215
Just as our eye is identified with the camera lens, so our ear is identified with the microphone and we hear the sounds as the microphone originally heard them, irrespective of where the sound film is being shown and the sound reproduced. In this way, in the sound film, the fixed, immutable, permanent distance between spectator and actor is eliminated not only visually, as already mentioned earlier in this book, but acoustically as well. Not only as spectators, but as listeners, too, we are transferred from our seats to the space in which the events depicted on the screen are taking place.
BASIC PROBLEM OF SOUND REPRODUCTION
Our sound apparatus records sound accurately and reproduces it with tolerable fidelity. But neither our microphones nor our loudspeakers can subjectively mould the sounds as the ordinary camera can influence the visual shape of things. If two cameramen of different artistic individuality photograph the same stormy sea, the visual pictures that result may be completely different. But the acoustic reproduction of the same stormy sea will be substantially the same, the only differences that may appear being due to technical causes. The sound engineer has no possibility of presenting the same sound in different ways, according to his own artistic personality. If two cameramen shoot the same scene, their pictures may resemble one another very little, although the objects in them may be equally recognizable in both. But sound tracks recorded by two sound engineers in the same technical conditions cannot show such individual differences.
Why? Is it due only to the technical imperfections of our present-day recording apparatus or are there other deeper reasons inherent in the very nature of sound or the nature of our hearing?
When a cameraman shoots the acting of an actor, as a visual phenomenon, there emerges a synthesis of two artistic performances: to the characterization by the actor is added the presentation by the cameraman who picks the most characteristic outlines and lightings out of a thousand different poss