Film History: From Silent to Sound

SINCE first shown in public in December 1895, all black-and-white films and mute. Voice in the new film was introduced in the 1920s. To give effect to the sound in the film, piano instrument is usually played in the background while a movie is playing. Efforts to fill out the sound also performed in a similar way when the movie is playing. Some actors / actresses voice behind the scenes mimicked the dialog that appears in the film. Also new color experiments began in the 1930s.

As pioneered by the Lumiere brothers, the film that was made in the early days only contain scenes footage or everyday events. Georges Melies French filmmakers who first added element of fantasy in the film. The work Melies 1902 entitled Trip to The Moon is the first space adventure movie. Making this film involves a camera trick. For example, to make people disappear and appear again or create a character grow and shrink. The idea of the film tricks that later stolen by cinematographer United States (US).

After plural made the film with a number of camera tricks or nature documentary (depicting everyday life), a different one then appears. Edwin S. Porter in the US who first introduced an action movie. In 1903 he made a film called The Great Train Robbery. This movie is about bandits who attacked a train when speeding. Porter's record movies in 12 different scenes place. Techniques brings together images taken from different scenes have become an important development in the production of the film. Porter successfully introduced a way that became known as the technique dissolves.

More than two decades later, the voice technology successfully used in the film. The Jazz Singer who played in October 1927 in New York is the movie talk / voice (talkie) first. Unlike voice we hear in the film as it is today, when it forms a sound synchronization. Not to blend with the film, but using a different track. Until 1933 the only remaining less than one percent dibutar silent film in cinema