We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
218 SOUND
in retrospect to have been the command, which is carried out by the sound of firing. Such sound similes and acoustic symbols are often somewhat too obvious and can easily degenerate into empty formalism.
ASYNCHRONOUS SOUND EFFECTS
A good traditional effect is achieved when the sounds of one scene are still heard during the next one. Instances: the jazz music of the night-club we have just seen can still be heard in the room where a dead man is lying; the roar of the open sea impinges on the sultry silence of a stuffy basement den in a great city. Or the other way round : we see a ploughman working in the fields but we can already hear in this picture the whirr and rattle of the factory machinery we are to see in the next, coming in from the neighbouring shot as it were; not a real neighbourhood, but a filmic neighbourhood, determined by the artistic composition of the film. Such anticipatory preparation increases tension and creates atmosphere.
THE MOST EXPRESSIVE INSTRUMENT
The asynchronous use of sound is the most effective device of the sound film. If recorded synchronously, sound is properly speaking merely a naturalistic complement to the picture. It simply makes the picture more like reality. But in asynchronous recording the sound grows independent of the image and can give a parallel meaning, a sort of running commentary to the scenes.
In one of the Soviet war films there was a young soldier whose nerves give way when he first comes under fire. He deserts his comrades and hides in a shell-hole. A close-up shows his face and by his closed mouth we can see that he is silent. Nevertheless we hear him talking. The monologue we hear is in his mind and we listen tensely to what he is silently saying to himself. If he had really spoken aloud and said the same words in a voiced monologue, this scene would have been unbearable. For nowadays even on the stage we find an 'unnatural' monologue difficult to accept. But isn't it even