Terms
The film-making phase where looping takes place.
What is a post-production?
Storefront theaters that appeared around 1905.
What is a Nickelodeon?
The first CinemaScope film.
What is "The Robe"?
1895 - 1929
What is Early film sound and music.
Technology for recording Sound on Film in the 1920s.
What is MovieTone?
The "playing" term where underscore closely follows the shape of the dialogue.
What is playing to details?
Late 1920s large theater with a Mighty Wurlitzer.
What is a picture palace?
An early (first?) musical with a jarring opening sequence due to overly "realistic" sound and no background but silence between shots.
What is The Broadway Melody?
1926 - 1932
What is The shift to Sound Film?
Technology from the 1920s for recording Sound on Disk.
What is Vitaphone?
Satirical use of music to parody a film scene.
What is guying a film?
The kind of instrument that is the "Mighty Wurlitzer".
What is a theater organ?
An example of a 100% Talkie film from 1928.
What is "Lights of New York"?
1932 - 1950
What is the Classical Studio Era?
Looping, dubbing, and rerecording dialogue are all known by this acronym.
What is ADR (automated dialogue replacement)?
A soundtrack album was a type of _______ income.
What is ancillary income?
Middle-class theater of the late 19th and early 20th century with mixed program of film, music, and other acts.
What is Vaudeville?
A "Synchronized" film from 1926 with recorded orchestral accompaniment but no sync dialogue.
What is "Don Juan"?
1950 - 1975
What is the Post-Classical Era?
The range between the softest and the loudest recorded sound.
What is dynamic range?
What is mixing?
Where all the decisions are made for placing music in a film.
What is a spotting session?
This film features a famous "dining room" montage.
What is "Citizen Kane"?
He invented the Kinetograph in the late 19th Century.
Who is Thomas Edison?
The technologies that revolutionized the sound track in the 1950s were stereo sound and _______.