Photo-electric cells of the emission type for sound film apparatus by 8096 British Standards Institution

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Ph.D. Thesis Abstract - The Transition from Silent to Sound Film in Poland by Sheila Skaff

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Radiometric analysis of digitized Z-scope records in archival radar sounding film by Dustin M. Schroeder, Anna L. Broome, Annabel Conger, Acacia Lynch, Emma J. Mackie, Angelo Tarzona

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In the Shadow of the “Indeterminate Speech-Act”: The Populist Politics of Rumor in Fritz Lang’s Early Sound Films by Florian Zappe

“…Based on Gilles Deleuze’s claim that rumor has been a “cinematographically privileged object” in early sound cinema, this essay will provide a political analysis of the representation of rumor in two early sound films in the transnational oeuvre of Fritz Lang. …”
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The Transition from Silent to Sound Film in a Small, Multi-Lingual Country. Luxembourg as a Case Study by Paul Lesch

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Soso Dumbadze and Nino Dzandzava (eds.): <i>Kote Mikaberidze</i> by Alexander Schwarz

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Evgenii Margolit: <i>Zhivye i mёrtvoe. Zametki k istorii sovetskogo kino 1920-1960kh</i> by Anna Karpusheva

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“Il primo film tutto parlato in italiano”. The Debate on Sei tu l'amore? in Magazines by Denis Lotti

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In-Between Waves, Reels and Grooves: Zagreb Professional Musicians of the 1930s and the Menace of Mechanical Music by Mojca Piškor

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La música en las representaciones de lo latinoamericano en los primeros filmes hollywoodenses con sonido incorporado (1927-1932) by Juan Carlos Poveda

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The introduction of film subtitling in Brazil by Rafael de Luna Freire

“…The conversion to sound cinema in Brazil beginning in the late 1920’s can be best defined as the systematic adoption of mechanic and synchronized sound film projection as the standard practice in the national theatrical exhibition circuit. …”
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Työtä ja työttömyyttä. Elokuvateatterien muusikot 1930-luvun vaihteen Turussa by Janne Mäkelä

“…This practice ceased to exist after the arrival of the sound film, and in Finland approximately three-hundred musicians faced unemployment. …”
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Outshining Aura: How Modernist Film Refashions the Myth of Don Quixote by Sánchez-Pardo Esther

“…This paper aims at examining the first Don Quixote sound film The Adventures of Don Quixote, directed by G.W. …”
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From Escapism to Propaganda: Hungarian Cinema in the Age of Growing Anti-Semitism, Nationalism, and World War II. Review Article of Frey, David. 2018. Jews, Nazis and the Cinema of... by Lilla Tőke

“…It looks at two books specifically as they examine issues such as the film industry’s transition from silent to sound film, the nationalization of the film industry system, the impact of anti-Jewish legislation on film making, and political censorship. …”
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Hallelujah (1929) de King Vidor : naissance de la voix afro-américaine à Hollywood by Jean-Marie Lecomte

“…Although conceived as a Movietone synchronized sound film, King Vidor’s Hallelujah had to be shot silent and dubbed afterwards. …”
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The two sides of the scalpel: The polarizing image of surgery in early cinema. by Dennis Henkel

“…Other specialties, however, such as plastic surgery, were mostly positively dramatized, which reveals a stark contrast to research about the representation of the field in the sound film era. A view at the fields of neurosurgery and (selectively) opthalmo-surgery rounds out the panorama of forty-one surgical films. …”
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Unheard Possibilities: Reappraising Classical Film Music Scoring and Analysis. An Introduction by Céline Murillo, David Roche

“…In a day and age when film music and sound studies are increasingly paying attention to the history, technique and technology of sound film and sound design, the articles refocus attention on music itself in order to assess the continued relevance of the analytical tools developed in the classical studies of film music, in particular those developed by the Michel Chion-Claudia Gorbman-Karthyn Kalinak trio. …”
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Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment on Foreign Screens: Transformations of the Chronotope by Liudmila I. Saraskina

“…The paper analyses the only preserved foreign silent screen version and twelve foreign sound film versions and adaptations of Dostoevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment, produced in Europe, Asia, both Americas, and Australia from 1923 to 2016 — and defined as “faithful”, “based on”, “associated with”, “with reference to” etc. …”
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Lights, Camera, Lumino-Politics: Lighting The Searchers, from Paraffin to LED by Pansy Duncan

“…Yet while this so-called aesthetic turn has restored questions of film sound, film form and film colour to the film-political agenda, questions of film lighting are yet to feature prominently in these discussions. …”
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Music by František Škvor for the Karol Plicka's film The Earth Sings – the beginning of Slovak national music? : some remarks on the origin and importance by Branko Ladič

“…During the interwar period he became the most significant slovak foklorist. The invention of sound film inspired him to make a film as an artefact with Slovak ethnographic subject matter, and the result was the first Slovak fulllength film The Earth Sings (1930–1933). …”
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