Multimedia: The early years. In the days before “talkies,” live musicians played scores to accompany silent films. Note the Tampa Theater’s orchestra pit at the bottom of the photo.
Tampa Theater, 1930. Burgert Brothers collection. Courtesy, Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System.
Combining media forms is nothing new. Silent films, for example, interspersed still type frames throughout the movie to deliver dialog and establish context. Theater organists provided dramatic musical accompaniments. Today’s digital multimedia combines type, ...
Get White Space is Not Your Enemy now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
