Monday, September 20, 2010

Talkies.

The talkies are films in which includes dialogues, music or other types of sound. In Hollywood talkies had a profound impact in technology used to play or record audio material. Prior to talkies, silent films were accompanied to live orchestras that were played in the theaters. The thought of talking on movies are because the viewers want to concentrate on the scenes and the dialogues of the film.
In 1900s there were attempts to reproduce sounds in films. The pioneers had to face many problems due to sound films. At first one of them was the synchronize the recording in films, was very challenging because of the devices that to use for back audio to be display with the movie. After years they used a sound on a disc technology, which made more easier to developed sound in films, in was called vitaphone. The first talkie with full length was called The Jazz singer. Many people at the beginning were complaining about talkies. Later on orchestras got unsuccessful and theaters stopped hiring them all over the world.

2 comments:

  1. Talkies were really amazing because in that time people thought that was imposible, but it also brought bad consequences because it was very expensive, characters had to do more things like learn their dialogues and things like that.

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  2. The Talkies was a very important step to go in that time, because people could have something to entertain. The talkies were most seen during the roaring 20´s, so in this time people that had money always went to the theaters to watch these talkies.

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