The Sounds of the Silents in Britain

ISBN: 9780199797547 出版年：2013 页码：351 Oxford University Press

Introduction: The Sounds of the Silents in Britain Julie Brown and Annette Davison Speaking to Pictures 1. Professional Lecturing in Early British Film Shows Joe Kember 2. "Now, where were we?" Ideal and Actual Early Cinema Lecturing Practices in Britain, Germany and the US Judith Buchanan 3. Eric Williams: Speaking to Pictures Stephen Bottomore 4. Sounding Scottish: Sound Practices and Silent Cinema in Scotland Trevor Griffiths Accompanying pictures 5. "Suitable music": Accompaniment Practice in Early London Screen Exhibition from R. W. Paul to the Picture Palaces Ian Christie 6. The Art of Not Playing to Pictures in British Cinemas, 1906-1914 Jon Burrows 7. "The efforts of the wretched pianist: Learning to Play to the Pictures in Britain, 1911-1913 Andrew Higson 8. The Reception of British Exhibition Practices in The Moving Picture World, 1907-1914 James Buhler Performance in cinemas 9. Selsior Dancing Films, 1912-1917 Stephen Bottomore 10. Song Performance in the Early Sound Shorts of British Pathe Derek B. Scott 11. Atmospheric Film Prologues and the British Film Trade Papers, 1919-1926 Julie Brown, Royal Holloway 12. Animating the Audience: Singalong Films in Britain in the 1920s Malcolm Cook Musicians, Companies and Institutions 13. Workers' Rights and Performing Rights: Cinema Music and Musicians Prior to Synchronized Sound Annette Davison 14. Sound at the Film Society John Riley 15. Edmund Meisel's "visual sound" in The Crimson Circle (1929): The Case of the Vanishing Part-Talkie Fiona Ford Bibliography Index