Word: soundtrack
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...documentaries shown here last week may mean as much for the future of films as the invention of the soundtrack. The man behind them, Richard Leacock, has made it possible for one man to photograph and record synchronously without assistance from anyone. Leacock's new equipment does away with the need for large and awkward production crews and opens the way for motion pictures shot spontaneously in any setting whatever...
...Black Orpheus recaptures not only the myth, but also the frenzied rites of the dancers who made their torchlit way from Athens to the Eleusinian shore. With brilliant color that revels in the setting's crotic intensity, the filming captures visually the vibrant joy and sad lyricism of the soundtrack...
...would know much less if Mr. Crowther had had his way." And I myself still recall the disconcerting experience of looking at even such light-weight stuff as a Bob Hope comedy in a Paris theatre a decade ago and being bombarded by an utterly incongruous French-dubbed soundtrack...
...true that the synchronization of lips in dubbed films varies widely in quality. But, despite Crowther, even the most skillful jobs are pretty readily detectable as such. And few things so easily destroy illusion in cinema as faulty synchronization of the soundtrack. Besides, languages differ vastly in the time it takes to express the same idea; yet dubbing imposes a temporal sameness, which often cannot be achieved without taking unwarranted liberties with the original text...