Unit 5: Invention of Sound Test Review:
Know the following for the test:
- Who invented the process of recording and playing back sound?
- What was the reaction of audiences to early attempts at sound films?
- What were the major reasons that the studios banded together to avoid sound movies?
- How did Audiences react to the Jazz Singer (Talkies)?
- How did the Jazz Singer change studio's attitudes toward Sound?
- What was Warner Brother's attitude toward Vitaphone?
- What were some problems with early sound movies?
- How directors directed silent films?
- How directors directed "talkies"?
- What were some reasons why sound movies earned less money than silent films?
- Know what changes had to happen to theaters because of sound
- Know what changes had to happen to studios because of sound
- Know what changes had to happen to actors because of sound
- Know what changes had to happen to scripts because of sound
- Know how Warner Brothers became a power studio because of sound
- What was the name of the company that figured out Synchronization?
- What is Synchronization?
- What were some of the consequences of sound coming into the movies?
- What were some of the problems with filming?
- What were some of the problems with watching a "talkie"?