Electric Affinities
Often the best way to understand a new technology is to compare it to an older one already understood. Frequently when writers in the late 1920s introduced the talkies, the simile ...
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Enticing the Audience: Warner Bros. and Vitaphone
The decision to add Movietone and Vitaphone to the product lines of Fox and Warners in 1927 was viewed as a curio (like color and stereoscopy) which m...
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Exhibition: Talkies Change the Bjou
Prologue is dead! On with THE SHOW OF SHOWS.
FROM THE FILM "PROLOGUE" TO THE SHOW OF SHOWS, 1929
For exhibitors and for audiences, the coming of sound and the com...
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Taming the Talkies, 1929-1930
Cinematographers now do everything they did in silent drama dares in
Hollywood.
JOHN SEITZ, Cinematographic Annual 1930
The obvious question to ask John Seitz is, Why w...
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Virtual Broadway, Virtual Orchestra: De Forest and Vitaphone
Talking pictures are perfected, says Dr. Lee De Forest. So is castor oil.
JAMES QUIRK, Photoplay, MARCH 1924
Once a new technology enters...
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Electric Affinities