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Cause: Beginning of film
Eadweard Muybridge was a photographer who on this day successfully photographed a horse named "Sallie Gardner" in fast motion using a series of 24 stereoscopic cameras. That was the beginning of moviing picture. Without moving picture there would never have been sound films or even movies.The experiment took place on June 11 at the Palo Alto farm in California with the press present. The cause of all things with films in the future can be traced back to this. -
Cause: Edison's wish
Marriage of sound and filmThis is when Thomas Edison ivented the phonograph which records sound it captures and can play it. Not long after the invention of cineman, he conceived that film would mix with his phonograph to naturally and eventually create sound films. But sitll he began working almost immediately on a machine that can play movies and sound. This was 33 years before sound film was even commercially available -
Turning Point: The First Talking Picture
The first voice in a filmThis was the day the first ever film with a voice was shown to the world. The film is called the Jazz Singer. The reaction from the audience was ecstatic and immediate. They rose from their seats and cheered. This event took place in New York. This is a huge turning point in film entertainment, because it was the first ever. First evers are always big things. -
Alfred Hitchcock's view
"The Silent films were the purest form of cinema." (Hitcock)
Probably the most famous director, Alfred Hitchcock, said this soon after the rise of popularity in sound films. As the quote clearly states Alfred preffered silent films more than sound ones. But due to the audience's preference Hitchcock made the film Blackmail (1929). This is not just him, but through many people eyes, because they were all quite loyal to silent films. -
Effect: Immune to the Great Depression
The Great DepressionThe time of the great wall street crash. Ruinded people's lives; people lost their jobs, they lost their homes, they lost their money. Even though the rest of the US was suffering, due to popularity of the sound films it kept hollywood seemingly immune to the great depression. This is one of the best effects of sound films, because it was the reason that hollywood was the only to survive the initial impact. -
Effects: End of Silent Films
History of film in the 20sSoon after the sound films became a huge sxuccess and became more popular than silent films. The decay of the ever popular silent film began. Allthough the public favored sound films greatly, Famous directors favored silent films. -
Modern theatres
I went to the theatre on that tuesday and not a suprise, there were no silent films. This is the change in filmatography, no more stringy film grains. No more having to stay within microphone range. Video quality and sound quality was increased massively and there is barely a need to worry about microphone range now, with hidden mics that can placed anywhere. This made cinema much more enjoyable like sound did to the silence
