July 2014
Intermediate to advanced
486 pages
16h 43m
English
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CHAPTER 2
A great many innovations in picture editing were compromised with the coming of sound. The early sound films have often been called filmed plays or radio plays with pictures as a result of the technological characteristics of early sound. In this period, however, there was an attempt to come to grips with the theoretical meaning of sound as well as an attempt to find creative solutions to overcome its technological limitations and to return to a more dynamic style of editing. It is to these early experiments in sound and picture editing that we now turn our attention.
TECHNOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS
Although experiments in sound technology had been conducted since 1895, it was primarily in radio and telephone transmission ...