Theory of film : the redemption of physical reality (1960)

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324 NOTES 38. Rosenheimer, 'They Make Documentaries . . . ," Film News, April 1946, vol. 7, no. 6:10, 23. At the beginning of the sound era, Walter Ruttmann in his Melody of the World delighted in recording the din of traffic, the screech of a saw. These reproductions were as many discoveries. 39. Epstein, "Sound in Slow Motion," in Bachmann, ed., Jean Epstein, 189719 S3; Cinemages, no. 2:44. 40. Clair, Reflexion faite, p. 152. 41. Ibid. p. 152. 42. Rosenheimer, op. cit. p. 23. 43. Cf. Lindgrcn, The Art of the Film, pp. 104-5. CHAPTER 8 1. Lindgrcn, The Art of the Film, p. 141, mentions that, "when the Lumiere films were shown at the first public exhibition in this country [England] in February 1896, they were accompanied by piano improvisations on popular tunes." See also Cavalcanti, "Sound in Films," films, Nov. 1939, vol. I, no. 1:25. 2. Sadoul, Les Pionniers du cinema, p. 485. 3. London, Film Music, pp. 27-8. Cavalcanti, op. cit. p. 27. 4. Landis and Bollcs, Textbook of Abnormal Psychology, p. 68. 5. Cf. Eisler, Composing for the Films, p. 75. 6. Murphy, Personality . . . , p. 115 n. See also Meyerhoff, Tonfilm und Wirklichkeit,pp.63ft. 7. Eisler, op. cit. p. 78. Cf. Vuillermoz, "La musique des images," L'Art cinematographique, vol. Ill, pp. 47-8, and Lindgrcn, op. cit. pp. 144-5. 8. Epstein, Cinema, p. 106; Balazs, Der sichtbare Mensch, p. 143. 9. Cavalcanti, op. cit. p. 39. 10. Copland, "Tip to Moviegoers . . . ," The New York Times Magazine, Nov. 6, 1949. 11. Dahl, "Igor Stravinskv on Film Music," Cinema, June 1947, vol. 1, no. 1:8. 12. Mr. Paul Rotha tentatively advanced this interesting assumption in a personal discussion with me. 13. Lindgrcn, The Art of the Film, p. 141. 14. Eisler, Composing for the Films, p. 69. 15. Milano, "Music in the Film . . . ," The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Spring 1941, no. 1:91. 16. Copland, op. cit. 17. Cf. Lindgrcn, op. cit. p. 147.