July 2018
Beginner to intermediate
666 pages
30h 34m
English
We gestate in Sound, and are born into Sight Cinema gestated in Sight, and was born into Sound
Walter Murch (From the Forward to Audio-Vision, by M. Chion, 1994)
Sound is almost like a drug. It’s so pure that when it goes in your ears, it instantly does something to you.
David Lynch (From “David Lynch’s Musical Magic” by E. Morgan, The Guardian, 2012)
Roughly, the first 33 years of film’s early history—between the introduction of Edison’s kinetoscope in 1894 and the commercial success of Warner Brothers’ The Jazz Singer in 1927—established the “motion picture” as a fundamentally visual art form, with images telling the entire narrative. In those early decades, before the introduction of “talking ...
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