At the Paris World's Fair of 1900, This device had a Mechanical Synchronization system and was the first attempt to market synchronized sound.
What is the Phonorama or Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre?
100
Concerning the audiences: Film producers agreed this was the problem with sound films.
What is a lack of interest from audiences?
100
He was an irrepressible ad libber and interpolated a few lines of spoken dialogue into two of his sync sound musical numbers. Hint: The Jazz Singer
Who is Al Jolson?
100
The first site of what would be a long series of attempts to market synchronized sound films
What is the Paris World’s Fair of 1900?
100
The first real French talkie directed by André Hugon and shot in England.
What is Les Trois Marques?
200
This man was ahead of his time and his attempt at sound film would set the subject matter and mood of "Poetic Realism".
Who is Jean Grémillon?
200
One problem that occurred while synchronizing sound and film in the early 1900's.
What is the process was imperfect and often didn't match up to the movie as a result of being done manually by the projectionist or the mechanism broke down frequently?
200
He directed the first real French talkie, Les Trois Masques, 1929.
Who is Andre Hugon?
200
Warner Brothers thought that these could serve as a cheap replacement to live singers, dancers, and instrumentalists
What are short sound films?
200
This made progress in sound film production slow in France.
What is the lack of studios equipped for sound production in the country?
300
This man attempted the transition to sound failed with the film La Fin du Monde due to unintelligible dialogue and pasty length cuts.
Who is Abel Gance?
300
Film producers discovered this 20 years after abandoning sound in cinema.
What is the fact that sound in cinema would be reintroduced and imposed from abroad?
300
He developed a viable, electrically recorded and reproduced sound-on-film process in the early 1920s.
Who is Lee De Forest?
300
These are where most of the early French talkies were produced.
What are England and Germany?
300
This country served as the soft, vulnerable underbelly of the European market for the American companies' marketing efforts due to its weak domestic film industry.
What is England?
400
MGM adopted this policy when they (along with many other American companies) began to remake American films in the French language to market their sound films in foreign markets, with little success.
What is "try everything, see what works" policy?
400
Critics thought this was the biggest problem with André Hugon's film Les Trois Masques.
What is it's kitchy theatricality?
400
This critic called the addition of sound to cinema a “savage invention”.
Who is Alexandre Arnoux?
400
This is what audience preferences had shifted to by the 1930s.
What are intimate, personal dramas set in more plausible fictional worlds?
400
Warner Brothers had a strategy to combine these two uses of synchronized sound
What are recorded musical accompaniments and sound effects (clashing swords, crowd noises, etc)?
500
After mediocre box office returns with multi-language remakes of American films, this company would shift its French policy of filmmaking to French boulevard theatre.
What is Paramount?
500
One problem highlighted in the most spectacular drama by Gance, La Fin du Monde.
What is most of the pre-recorded dialogue was unintelligible, and the rest was mocked?
500
It perfected its own cinema sound process in 1924, based on the electro-mechanical synchronization of images on film with sound on discs. Hint: Not an individual.
What is The Western Electric Company?
500
This is what producer Pierre Braunberger's company, La Route est belle, combined.
What is production, distribution, and exhibition?
500
He believed that none of the traditional methods of the silent film could survive, beginning with scene construction and editing.