The Dawn of Sound
This 1927 film is considered to be the first full-length sound film.
What is Warner Brothers' the Jazz Singer in 1927?
In the film Singin’ in the Rain, Lina and Don both see this kind of coach to prepare for their talking picture.
What is a diction coach?
Early sound films were recorded on this disc.
What is a Vitaphone?
When one person’s voice is substituted with another person’s voice on film.
What is Dubbing?
In the film Singin’ in the Rain, the fictional movie studio, Monumental Pictures, is based on this Hollywood studio.
What is Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM)?
In the film Singin’ in the Rain, Lina had this big problem when films switched over to sound.
What is her voice?
During the early days of sound films, when film and its sound track were not synchronized.
What is Talkie Terror?
In the film Singin’ in the Rain, Lina threatens to do this if the studio tells the truth about Kathy lip synching for her.
What is to sue them for breach of contract.
In the film Singin’ in the Rain, Kathy suggests doing this to the failed Dueling Cavalier film.
What is making it int the musical The Dancing Cavalier?
This type of microphone that was used in the early days of sound film picked up too many ambient sounds.
What is the omnidirectional microphone?
In the film Singin’ in the Rain, Don Lockwood (Gene Kelly) get his start in the movies at Monumental Pictures by getting this job during a shoot where be had been doing music.
What is a stunt man/stunt double?
In the film Singin’ in the Rain, RF is very excited to show his partygoers this novelty.
What is a film with sound?
This was Al Jolson’s signature phrase as seen in Warner Brothers The Jazz Singer in 1927.
What is “You ain’t heard nothin’ yet.”
In the Jazz Singer, young Jakie Rabinowitz wants to be a jazz performer, but his father orders him to carry on the family tradition and be one of these.
What is a cantor?
Describe two scenes featuring Kathy Selden in Singin’ in the Rain.
What are:
Don jumps in her car and she claims that she is not that familiar with his career and that all of the movies are the same.
She throws a pie at Don that hits Lina.
She dubs her voice in for Lina’s after the premiere.