Breaking the silence

Question 1

Synchronous sound means ___ are being recorded then ____ with the video

Answer 1

Words
Matched

Question 2

Theatres had to supply music, sound effects, and narration through _____ or _____

Answer 2

Phonographs
Live Performances

Question 3

When dialogue was absolutely necessary, filmmakers had actors mouth the words and then insert ___ or ___ in the middle of the scene so the audience could read the dialogue themselves

Answer 3

title cards
inter titles

Question 4

There were a few major hurdles with the evolution of scund in movies
1. _______- matching the image and sound up
2._______was fairly primative
3.___________ which meant more equipment ,larger crews, access to power
4. ______-speaker technology was simplify not loud enough to fill theatre

Answer 4

1. Synchronization
2. Microphone Technology
3. Electricity
4. Amplification

Question 5

WKL Dickinson created ______ that used a system of ______ to connect the two devices

Answer 5

Kinetophone
Pulleys

Question 6

A major problem of sound was the use of the ______ It relied on ______ or _____ that could only hold 4-5 minutes worth of sound by 1905 virtually all films were longer than 4-5 minutes

Answer 6

1. Phonographs
2. Cylinders
3. Discs

Question 7

Since the phonograph seemed like a dead end engineers started to look for ways to record sound _____ They called this technology _____

Answer 7

1. Photographically
2. Sound of film

Question 8

To solve the amplification problem LDF invented the___ He also formed the _____ and set about making some of the very first ____ films called ____

Answer 8

1. 3 Electrade Amplifier Tube
2. De forest phonofilm company
3. Sync Sound Films
4. Phonofilms

Question 9

Studio Heads thought that _____ or ____ were just a novelty that would fade away

Answer 9

Talking Pictures
Talkies

Question 10

In 1926 a subsidiary of AT&T introduced the ____ at first studios passed on the vitaphone except one studio called ___

Answer 10

Vitaphone system
Warner Bros

Question 11

New Film Genres began to emerge
1. ________ movies were suddenly possible
2. ______ led the way in feature film
3. ____ movies and ____ films as sound effects enabled tension
4. ___ Movies Became Fashionable

Answer 11

Musicals amd Dance Movies
Disney, Animation
Gangster, Monster
News Paper