Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Film Corp. and Wesco Corp. (Pacific Coast theatres), making a total of 295 theatres under William...
...recorded by the camera, his words (or songs) are caught by a microphone and sent through an amplifier. In the Movietone, these captured sound waves are changed into light variations which are recorded within the camera on a one-tenth-inch strip down one side of the action-taking film. Thus, the completed talking film differs from an ordinary film only in this lean strip of light and shade. In a theatre, as the film is run off, a reverse process makes the words (or songs) that the audience hears. Horns behind the screen are connected with the projection room...
...voices. At present, most of them have a lisp or a husky sound when heard over the Vitaphone. 2) Dialog. Subtitle writers can be stupid, but writers of dialog that is heard should be clever. 3) Sound and Quiet. The abrupt changes in the middle of a film from mute lips to sound-emitting lips are annoying, unreal. (Perhaps the full-length films can be divided into talking acts and nontalking acts...
...inwardly love the down-trodden peasantry and must outwardly love one peasant girl. The upshot is that, inevitably, the grand duke and the girl escape across the border to avoid being butchered by the shaggy Soviets. In The Red Dance they do it in an airplane. And yet, the film is first-class entertainment. Dolores Del Rio and Charles Farrell are a capable pair, though they do not look very Russian. To Ivan Linow went the sympathy and the praise of the audience. He plays the part of a vodka-guzzling peasant, who thinks no woman worth more than...
Creation of a European film cartel to battle the U. S. invasion, long held a possibility, last week became a reality. Herr Klitsch, director-general of the famed UFA, is the organizer of the cartel, which includes the Institute Nazionale Luce of Rome and, possibly, French producers...