I have always had a deep
interest in film. Cinema technologies have progressed and changed so much over
the years. It is amazing to see how far we have come with our film technology;
but, there is something so beautiful and simplistic about the 1920 era of film that
people should revisit and give a chance to an entirely different movie art form.
It was not until the late 1920’s that sound was introduced into films. Before
1927 silent films were the craze. These films contained music by a piano or
other instrument playing in the background with title cards that would appear
with printed text to move the storyline along. It was then that “talkies” were
made in 1927 when the movie The Jazz
Singer was released. According to our text book, they used the Vitaphone, a
sound-on-disc process that issued the audio from the film.
