Golden Age of Hollywood
This decade marked the beginning of the Great Depression after the 1929 stock market crash.
What are the 1930s?
The technique of creating live sound effects like footsteps and doors in sync with film.
What is Foley?
This film we watched begins in black and white and transitions to color when Dorothy enters the new and magical land.
What is The Wizard of Oz?
Name one film composer from any era of film.
John Williams, Max Steiner, Hans Zimmer, Howard Shore, etc...
During the Golden Age of film, this city became the center of the movie industry and the most important location for filmmaking.
What is Hollywood?
Re-recording dialogue after filming to improve sound quality.
What is ADR (or looping)?
This 1933 film featured one of the first full orchestral film scores.
What is King Kong?
The technique of creating live sound effects was named after this person.
Who is Jack Foley?
This term was used to describe early movies with synchronized dialogue and sound.
What are talkies?
Background environmental sound that helps a scene feel realistic.
What is ambience?
Songs sung by characters as part of the story, that can be heard by the characters on screen, in Wizard of Oz are considered this type of music.
What is diegetic music?
This German process recorded sound directly onto film in early cinema.
What is the Tri-Ergon Process?
This new technology in homes helped lead to the decline of the Golden Age of Hollywood.
What is television?
Sound whose source can be seen on screen (like a character singing).
What is diegetic sound?
The Wizard of Oz is famous for being one of the first major films to widely use this technology.
What is color film (Technicolor)?
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences created this new standard to fix the different quality of speakers and sound in theaters across the nation.
What is the Academy Curve?
This 1948 Supreme Court case ended the studio system’s control over movie theaters.
What is United States v. Paramount Pictures?
The meeting where directors and sound teams decide what sounds and music are needed in a film.
What is a spotting session?
This composer wrote the groundbreaking musical score for King Kong.
Who is Max Steiner?
The husband-and-wife team who built the Foley Studio in 1962.
Who are Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball?