Headings and Subheadings

Headings:

Early Film Sound, the 1920’s
-Why music was paired with film.
-Kinobibliothek and “specific suggestions for music”


Introduction of the “Talkie”
-Early expierements with combining sound and film
W.K Lauie Dickson and the Kinetophone
- De Forest and the vacumm tube
-Tri- Ergon, the first sound on film
electromagnetic recorder and a string galvanometer.
-Phonofilms
-Film sound come of age, the 1930s

Fantasia
-Fantasound
-Specially built theaters for screening
-technical advances
the click track
dispersion-aligned loudspeaker system with skewed-horn
the pan-pot
control-track level-expansion
overdubbing of orchestral parts
simultaneous multitrack recording
and the development of a multichannel surround system.



Dolby
-A-type noise reduction
- stereo variable soundtrack
before dolby noise reduction stereo was impossible because “it was too noisy to have two optical channels on a piece of 35mm film.”
-Surround in the 1970s

Digital Age
-Electronic Instruments in Film Scores
-Modern techniques for recording and synch


Foley
-what is foley?/ Jack Foley
-examples of creative foley.
Phantom Menace ect.

The Music Video
-setting popular music to video.

Important Composers
Bernard Herrmann
John Williams
Clint Mansell
Alan Silvestri