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Cavalcanti, A. (1939). Sound in films. Retrieved January 16, 2006, from https://web.archive.org ... /575/sound-in-films.htm Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (10/02/2006, 16:33) Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (10/09/2021, 10:23) |
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| Resource type: Web Article BibTeX citation key: Cavalcanti1939 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: Film Music/Sound Keywords: Film sound Creators: Cavalcanti Resources citing this (Bibliography: WIKINDX Master Bibliography) |
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Among other points, emphasizes the (regretted) dominance of dialogue in talkies over other sound.
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| In American movies with stars such as Spencer Tracy, James Cagney and Gary Cooper, "[F]ilm dialogue, it was discovered, was most effective and dramatic when it was uttered clearly, rapidly, and evenly, almost thrown away. Emphasis and emotional effect must of necessity be left to the care of the visuals." Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard |
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The author is quite scathing about the use of Romantic (and neo-Classical) music in films of the time. "It is an idiom suited to an atmosphere of pomp and display. In style, the music of the cinema, by and large, represents a fixation at a stage of development which the art itself left behind about thirty years ago. Tschaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Sibelius, are the spiritual fathers of most cinema music."
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Keywords: Music |
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"Suggestion is always more effective in drama than statement." If sound is synchronized with image "then suggestion becomes statement." ... "Pictures are clear and specific, noises are vague."
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Keywords: Asynchronicity Synchresis/Synchrony |
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"...silence can be the loudest of noises..."
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Keywords: Silence |
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Cavalcanti uses 'natural sound' as a synonym for 'noise'.
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Keywords: Noise |