[ARSCLIST] Sound films

[Thomas Stern <sternth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I've just started viewing a DVD available from France:
>  Les Premiers Pas Du Cinema - a la recherche du son (Lobster)
>  (a second DVD in the package deals with the development of color film)
> This is an incredible documentary with 18 additional complete films 
> related to
> the development of the 'talkies'
> Sound on the DVD is French or English, it is region 0, but PAL format.
> Lobster Films website:   http://www.lobsterfilms.com/lobster_films.htm
>  some interesting information, but requires a lot of digging around.
> The DVD at one of many French sources:
>
> http://www.alapage.com/-/Fiche/DVD/886856/DVD/?id=244921132857778&donnee_a
> ppel=ALAPAGE&sv=X_L
> The documentary (and additional film) address live sound accompanying 
> film,
> sound on disk, and optical soundtrack.
> Some of the supplementary films include Snappy Tunes 1923 Sissle & Blake
> (deForest), Gus Visser and his duck singing Ma He's Making Eyes At Me
> (1925), a Fleischer/Western Electric cartoon Finding His Voice explaining 
> the
> technology of sound on film, a Vitaphone short promo for The Jazz Singer
> (sound on disk), Ain't She Sweet (Fleischer animation with Lilian
> Roth.....etc.
> Best wishes, Thomas.

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