As of March 20, 2024, the content of this post, including annotated musical examples, has been moved to a file published on the Texas ScholarWorks platform: Film Music: Some Posts from Blogs.
Showing posts with label 2e-Chapter 05. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2e-Chapter 05. Show all posts
Friday, March 9, 2018
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Changes in the Tags (Labels)
I have revised the blog's "Chapter" tags.
If you look at the right-hand side of the screen, below "Blog Archive," you'll find our long list of "Tags." Some of them identify topics ("film form", "leitmotif", "home studio"), others name films discussed (Glory, Prisoner of Zenda), name people ("Victor Herbert", "Katharine Hepburn"), or name institutions, things, and places ("theaters", "cue sheets", "Kinetophone", "Berlin").
Early in the blog's history we used a tag called "pedagogy" to call attention to material particularly suitable for classroom use. That tag is still in the list, but I have rewritten another set, "Chapters," to pinpoint information by chapter. The "1e-" tags refer to the first edition; "2e-" tags refer to the second edition.
Note: I did not attempt to label the large number of posts containing a variety of documentary materials. These are concentrated in the period from July 2009 to March 2010; they are relevant mainly to Chapters 4 and 5 (early film sound and music practices; the transition period). The tags "early cinema," "exhibition," "music for the picture," "source material," and "talking pictures" are efficient ways to get at certain aspects of this material.
If you look at the right-hand side of the screen, below "Blog Archive," you'll find our long list of "Tags." Some of them identify topics ("film form", "leitmotif", "home studio"), others name films discussed (Glory, Prisoner of Zenda), name people ("Victor Herbert", "Katharine Hepburn"), or name institutions, things, and places ("theaters", "cue sheets", "Kinetophone", "Berlin").
Early in the blog's history we used a tag called "pedagogy" to call attention to material particularly suitable for classroom use. That tag is still in the list, but I have rewritten another set, "Chapters," to pinpoint information by chapter. The "1e-" tags refer to the first edition; "2e-" tags refer to the second edition.
Note: I did not attempt to label the large number of posts containing a variety of documentary materials. These are concentrated in the period from July 2009 to March 2010; they are relevant mainly to Chapters 4 and 5 (early film sound and music practices; the transition period). The tags "early cinema," "exhibition," "music for the picture," "source material," and "talking pictures" are efficient ways to get at certain aspects of this material.
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Gaumont Sound films
Below are some "phonescènes" that have been posted to YouTube. These are synchronized sound films directed by Alice Guy for the Gaumont Chronophone, and all of the ones below happen to have been made in 1905. All of these are also included on the Gaumont Treasures, 1897-1913. Here is the IMDB link to a list of Chronophones.
This first one is actually not on the IMDB list (but is included in the Gaumont Treasures): Polin performs L'anatomie du conscrit (The Anatomy of a Draftee).
Félix Mayol performs La Polka des Trottins.
Armand Dranem performs Five O'Clock Tea.
Armand Dranem performs Le Vrai Jiu-Jitsu.
The Gaumont collection also includes Félix Mayol in both Questions indiscrètes and Lilas-Blanc.
This first one is actually not on the IMDB list (but is included in the Gaumont Treasures): Polin performs L'anatomie du conscrit (The Anatomy of a Draftee).
Félix Mayol performs La Polka des Trottins.
Armand Dranem performs Five O'Clock Tea.
Armand Dranem performs Le Vrai Jiu-Jitsu.
The Gaumont collection also includes Félix Mayol in both Questions indiscrètes and Lilas-Blanc.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Examples of Early Sound Film
Here are a number of examples of early sound films.
The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (c. 1894)
Nursery Favorites (Edison, 1914)
A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor (de Forest Phonofilm, 1923):
Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Sing Snappy Songs (de Forest Phonofilm, 1923)
President Coolidge, Taken on the White House Grounds (de Forest Phonofilm, 1924)
Gus Visser and his Singing Duck (Theodore Case, 1925)
Anna Case in La Fiesta (Vitaphone, 1926). (Although the YouTube video lists this as 1928, I believe it is actually 1926.)
George Bernard Shaw (Fox Movietone, 1928)
Finding His Voice (Western Electric, 1929)
The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (c. 1894)
Nursery Favorites (Edison, 1914)
A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor (de Forest Phonofilm, 1923):
Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Sing Snappy Songs (de Forest Phonofilm, 1923)
President Coolidge, Taken on the White House Grounds (de Forest Phonofilm, 1924)
Gus Visser and his Singing Duck (Theodore Case, 1925)
Anna Case in La Fiesta (Vitaphone, 1926). (Although the YouTube video lists this as 1928, I believe it is actually 1926.)
George Bernard Shaw (Fox Movietone, 1928)
Finding His Voice (Western Electric, 1929)
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