Romà Gubern in the introduction to
Octubre (conference in Juan March foundation) explains some of the changes in
the cinema with the sound arrival.
Actors problems:
He explains the problem of the “phonogenic”.
Some artist has good appearance but a unpleasant voice. Others were foreigners who
were unable to learn English. In France, a multitude broke a cinema because
they don’t understood the film in English.
Technician problems:
The first film, The Jazz Singer, was
a film plus a disk. The synchronization was very difficult. If you cut the film
the sound was disaccording. The Warner Brothers have a Radio Broadcast. They
apply the radio techniques to the films to solve this kind of problems. When
the sound was simultaneous to the image, the problem was the noise near the
camera. The solution was surrounding the camera. Now the problem was the weight
of the camera: it seems impossible to make a “travelling”. It has been very well explained in Singing on the rain.
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