Film Sound Production - Sound Film, Dolby Digital, Dubbing, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, THX, Click Track, Production Sound Mixer (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 116. Chapters: 10.2 surround sound, 22.2 surround sound, AACTA Award for Best Production Design, AACTA Award for Best Sound, Academy Award for Best Sound Editing, Anempathetic sound, Audiography, Audio mixing (film and television), Bass management, Ben Burtt, Bob Beemer, Bob Pomann, Center channel, Chris Newman (sound engineer), Chronophone, Cinema Digital Sound, Click track, Deep Note, Dickson Experimental Sound Film, Director of audiography, Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby Laboratories, Dolby Pro Logic, Dolby Stereo, Dolby Surround, Dolby Surround 7.1, Douglas Shearer, DTS (sound system), Fantasound, Film Music Guild, Foley (filmmaking), Freeman Harrison Owens, Gary Summers, George Groves (sound engineer), Glen Glenn Sound, Goat gland (film release), Height channels, Imm sound, Iosono, Jeremy Price, Jimmy MacDonald (sound effects artist), John S. Bowen (sound designer), Jon Johnson, Kinetoscope, L.C. Concept, List of 8 channel SDDS films, Low-frequency effects, Mark W. Ryan, MOS (filmmaking), Movietone sound system, Normand Roger, Omnibus Promotion, Optical Radiation Corporation, Paca Thomas, Pallophotophone, Per Hallberg, Phonofilm, Phonoscene, Photographophone, Photokinema, Production sound mixer, RCA Photophone, Real Image Media Technologies, Resul Pookutty, Skywalker Sound, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, Sound-on-disc, Sound-on-film, Soundelux, Sound editor (filmmaking), Source music, SRS Labs, Stagg Street Studios, Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck, THX, Treg Brown, Tri-Ergon, Ultra Stereo, Underscoring, Vitaphone, Voice-over translation, Willie D. Burton. Excerpt: A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before sound motion pictures were made commercially practical. Reliable synchronization was difficult to achieve with the early sound-on-disc systems, and amplification and recording quality were also inadequate. Innovations in sound-on-film led to the first commercial screening of short motion pictures using the technology, which took place in 1923. The primary steps in the commercialization of sound cinema were taken in the mid- to late 1920s. At first, the sound films incorporating synchronized dialogue-known as "talking pictures," or "talkies"-were exclusively shorts; the earliest feature-length movies with recorded sound included only music and effects. The first feature film originally presented as a talkie was The Jazz Singer, released in October 1927. A major hit, it was made with Vitaphone, the leading brand of sound-on-disc technology. Sound-on-film, however, would soon become the standard for talking pictures. By the early 1930s, the talkies were a global phenomenon. In the United States, they helped secure Hollywood's position as one of the world's most powerful cultural/commercial systems (see Cinema of the United States). In Europe (and, to a lesser degree, elsewhere) the new development was treated with suspicion by many filmmakers and critics, who worried that a focus on dialogue would subvert the unique aesthetic virtues of soundless cinema. In Japan, where the popular film tradition integrated silent movie and live vocal performance, talking pictures were slow to take root. In India, sound was the transformative element that led to the rapid expansion of the nation's film industry-the most productive such industry in the world since the early 1960s. Image from the Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894 or 1895),