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Title Sound and the cinema : the coming of sound to American film / edited by Evan William Cameron, assisted by William F. Wilbert & Joan Evans-Cameron
Published Pleasantville, N.Y. : Redgrave Pub. Co., [1980]
©1980

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Description xvi, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents Pt. 1. Technological revolution: Technological antecedents of the coming of sound / Raymond Fielding -- Hollywood converts to sound / Douglas Gomery -- Part. 2. Reminiscence and reflection / [by] Hal Mohr, cinematographer -- Frank Capra, director -- Rouben Mamoulian, director -- Julius J. Epstein, screenwriter -- Walter Reisch, screenwriter -- Bernard Herrmann, composer -- Pt. 3. European influence: European influence on the coming of sound to the American film, 1925-1940 / Gerald F. Noxon -- Pt. 4. Comparison and contrast: Applause, the visual and acoustic landscape [about Mamoulian's 1929 film] / Lucy Fischer -- Citizen Kane, the influence of radio drama on cinematic design / Evan William Cameron
Analysis HISTORY OF CINEMA. SOUND PERIOD
Notes Consists largely of proceedings of a symposium held at the International Museum of Photography, Rochester, N.Y., 1973
Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography: pages [220]-223
Subject Mamoulian, Rouben.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History -- Congresses.
Motion pictures -- United States -- History.
Sound motion pictures -- History -- Congresses.
Sound motion pictures -- History.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Cameron, Evan William.
Evans-Cameron, Joan.
Wilbert, William F.
LC no. 80131142
ISBN 091317856X (paperback)