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Les premiers pas du cinéma (Discovering Cinema)
Part 1 : A la recherche du son (Learning to talk)
Part 2 : Un rêve en couleur (Movies dream in Color)
Director : Eric Lange
Writer, commentary : Serge Bromberg
Original Music : Neil Brand, Eric Le Guen
Produced by Serge Bromberg, Anne Genevaux, Chantal Knecht
France
2003
Runtime : 2x52 min
Summary :
Discovering Cinema 2-disc set goes even earlier into film history. "Learning to Talk" "and Movies Dream in Color" are French television shows on the genesis of sound and color in filmmaking. Illustrated with full examples, the shows begin long before the 1895 debut of the Kinematograph, amazing us with the ingenuity of movie-mad inventors.
Learning to Talk (Les premiers pas du cinéma - À la recherche du son) begins with experiments in the 1860s to study audio signals. The show traces three completely different approaches to the problem. Live sound Accompaniments began as a karaoke-like process with people playing music and sound effects to match what was on the screen. We see weird early examples of the 'bouncing ball' sing-along technique, with a conductor's baton and even an entire conductor matted into the image. Various Sound On Disc technologies are introduced, with dozens of ideas abandoned for the lack of a method to synchronize separate audio and film machines. To get around having a large microphone or horn in the scene with the actor, movies are made where the performers lip-synch to existing tracks, thus proving that audio playback dubbing was not invented by Cosmo Brown in Singin' in the Rain. The Sound On Film approach requires more complex inventions with selenium sound readers, and is held up by the inability to amplify audio. That hurdle is passed during WW1, when advances are made in communications and wireless technology.
Even though Fox's Sound On Film Movietone apparatus is 'the better mousetrap', Warners beats them to the punch in 1926 with part-talkies filmed in its disc-based Vitaphone system. Like Beta and VHS or HD-DV and Blu-Ray, the two systems would be in competition until 1930 or so, when Sound On Film became the standard. As a parting joke, Learning to Talk shows us that the modern DTS theatrical system relies on compact discs for its audio playback. Everything old is new again.
The show's film clips are nothing short of amazing. We see good examples for most every attempt at making the movies
speak, even an animated set of 1870s photographs designed to teach lip-reading for the deaf. Mussolini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle speak to America in 1920s newsreels. An early short subject has a vaudeville performer sing "Mama, she's making eyes at me" accompanied by a performing duck. (It quacks.)
The second show, Movies Dream in Color (Les premiers pas du cinéma -Un rêve en couleur) does much the same thing for color systems, showing the obvious examples like hand tinted prints that eventually are produced on an assembly line. The inventors try everything from weird lenticular systems that cause eyestrain, to emulsions impregnated with thousands of little 'lenses' that produce fuzzy, grainy pictures. Photochemical processes blending two hues get off to a slow start, while Technicolor works almost twenty years perfecting a full-color process that people will accept. The examples given are fascinating. Some two-color processes are more colorful than some of today's artistic attempts at desaturated images. Anna May Wong shows up in the first Technicolor feature Toll of the Sea from 1922. As in the sound docu, some ofthe most interesting images are actually from pre-movie technologies, showing how complicated shadow puppets and projected slide shows almost reached the level of animated cartoons.
Glenn Erickson/DVD savant review
Specs
xvid
640x480 (1.33:1) [=4:3]
0.192 bits/pixel
1474 kb/s
25.000 FPS
ac3 (0x2000) Dolby Laboratories, Inc
192 kb/s (96/ch, stereo) CBR
48000 Hz
Note : Dual Audio, with French in Track 1 and English on Track 2.
Part 1 : A la recherche du son (Learning to talk)
Les.Premiers.Pas.Du.Cinema.A.La.Recherche.Du.Son.Eric.Lange.Dual audio.ENG.FR.avi
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Part 2 : Un rêve en couleur (Movies dream in Color)
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