Sound & Fury: Film

Follows the struggles of a small theatre company attempting to adapt a Shakespeare play.

Sound Strip/Film Strip

Sound Strip / Film Strip is Paul Sharits' first "Locational" work, made in collaboration with Bill Brand. The piece was commissioned for the 1972 opening exhibition of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston,Texas. “...So

Dickson Experimental Sound Film

William K.L. Dickson plays the violin while two men dance. This is the oldest surviving sound film where sound is recorded on the phonograph.

Functions of Film Sound

This visual essay sets clips from Robert Bresson's "A Man Escaped" to a reading of "Functions of Film Sound," a chapter from David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's book "Film Art." The chapter analyzes the sound design of

A Sound Film

16mm film by Wyndham Wise and Richard Schoichet.

A Sound Film

OPTICAL SOUND FILM II

Sacred Sound, documentary film

Sacred Sound is a documentary film of one summer week when 50 American girls learn to sing extraordinary sacred music in the manner of traditional boy choirs. The girls rehearse under the baton of premiere choral conduct

Early Amateur Sound Film

A montage of some home movies taken by Archie Stewart (1902-1998), an early enthusiast in taken 16 mm sound films of his family. We see his daughters, Mary and Anne, playing in the aftermath of a January, 1936, snowstorm

Massilia Sound System: Le film

a short film without sound

a short film without sound

Side Seat Paintings Slides Sound Film

Watch slides of Michael Snow's paintings from the worst seat in the house.

A Film With Sound (Take Three)

A father and daughter make a new movie after the daughter requests to make a film with sound after making a silent one the previous year.

Sound Recording and Reproduction (Sound on Film)

This film from 1943 explains the mysteries of sound recording on film.

A Sound Film about FAMU

This documentary on FAMU is designed with an emphasis on its informative and promotional role. It presents FAMU as a renowned school with a practical focus (“film as a noble form of entertainment is taught through the ac

Tigerstedt's early film sound experiment

The inventor experimented with different sound film methods and apparently screened the world’s first usable sound films in Berlin in 1914 and Copenhagen in 1915. Some of these synchronized sound-on-film images survive.

The Foley Grail: The Art of Performing Sound for Film, Games, and Animation

Create custom sound effects that are the mainstay of soundtracks for films, broadcast, animation and games. Learn how Foley is designed, crafted and edited for any project- right down to the nuts and bolts of spotting, c

Pioniere der Filmmusik - Europas Sound für Hollywood

Hollywood film music has its roots in Europe. Three composers who fled war and National Socialism to the USA created the sound that still shapes film music today: Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Max Steiner and Franz Waxman. In

Theodore Case Test Film

“An engineering graduate of Yale University, Theodore Case assisted Lee de Forest in developing sound-on-film called “Phonofilm.” Falling out with de Forest, Case and associate E.I. Sponable then built a laboratory behin

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

The history of cinematic sound, told by legendary sound designers and visionary filmmakers.