Word: sound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fenway, continuous-"Lilac Time". A distinctly unsound sound picture. Don't stand in line to see it whatever you do, although the accompanying movie Tone and Vitaphone is good...
Central Square, continuous-"Loves of an Actress". Pola Negri in her first sound picture...
...remote, jungled landscapes of India and in the alleyways of cities of Ceylon, music can be heard. To most occidental ears such music sounds queer and ugly, as the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra would sound queer to the inhabitants of the far places. Yet oriental music did not sound ugly to Leopold Stokowski, famed insurgent conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony. In fact during a recent and extensive tour of the Far East he stood "literally hypnotized ... by music such as western ears had never heard, wildly discordant but with overtones of grandeur." Always eager to shock the music-lovers of Philadelphia...
...pantomimed with his hands his tongue would follow suit.* But as he came to occupy his hands more and more in his crafts he would have to rely more on gestures of the face, tongue and lips. Then it would come about that pantomime action would be recognized by sound as well as sight. Speech was thus born...
...This [cooperative] idea is sound and I predict that exhibitors in all parts of the country will have to see its soundness or be swallowed up by the great motion picture machines...