How Motion Pictures Move And Talk
How Motion Pictures Move And Talk is a short film from 1940 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
Explains the basic principles of motion pictures and, by animation, shows how sound is recorded on a strip of film.
23:01:28:24 Title How Motion Pictures Move and Talk superimposed over shot of movie project.
23:01:50:28 Two airplanes flying over the Great Pyramids in Egypt.
23:01:54:03 VS smoking volcano.
23:01:55:27 Stock shot of pope placing crown on a kings head.
23:01:58:28 Burning Hindenburg zeppelin.
23:02:02:02 World War II army tanks speeding over trenches.
23:02:08:02 President Harry S. Truman in hat.
23:02:23:12 Audience watching film in movie theater.
23:02:26:01 VS family, son holding dog seated between mother and father; all are sitting behind movie projector watching home movie of the boy playing with family dog.
23:02:40:13 Little blonde boy sits in the grass playing tug of war with dog (terrier) on leash.
23:02:57:07 CU hand holds upright a stick with circular card with empty bird cage on one side and a bird on the other. Hand demonstrates the theory of film by spinning the stick to show that as the card turns the bird appears to be in the bird cage.
23:03:13:17 VS early Thomas Edison s early movie projector; CU woman winding box peering into movie box; CU Inside box with revolving wheel of pictures flipping through like a giant flip book of photographs producing moving image.
23:03:32:27 VS cartoon artist drawing cartoon; CU sequence of pig-woman cartoon drawings.
23:03:53:19 Great shot of running film projector in profile, rotates slowly toward camera.
23:04:04:29 VS demonstrating various parts of film projector in CU: lenses, film moving mechanism, shutter. Great CU into running projector. Great CU demonstrating movie projector shutter.
23:06:10:25 Man focusing movie camera in between three large set lights.
23:06:16:25 VS CU of machine perforating film to create sprocket holes.
23:06:28:01 CU of film running through camera.
23:06:52:17 Great CU of film running down screen with visible audio track.
23:07:12:19 VS CU running film projector; film passes through the exciter lamp Comical narration With the volume control, we turn this light up, AND THE SOUND BECOMES LOUDER!
23:07:56:22 VS of sound recording for film soundtrack in 1940s to 1950s studio; engineer at control board adjusting knobs; great Brechtian alienation moment of narrator filmed recording audio track for film reading I am here at the microphone reading from my script, against the picture action on the screen.
23:08:28:27 Diagram explaining recording sound with microphone for film audio track.
23:08:57:04 Narrator in recording studio reading from script into microphone My words that have been recorded on the sound track appear like this [points to sound track now running down side of the shot], I am now speaking to you from the screen [stares directly into camera]. Many of you perhaps never realized that voice and sound can actually be seen.
23:09:09:23 VS on movie set shooting fight scene; great shot of artifice of filmmaking; visible set, director saying Cut! , lights, camera, actors.
23:09:39:24 VS in film developing laboratory. Negative washed in chemical solution. Film printing.
23:09:58:09 VS film editors cutting and editing film.
23:10:39:09 VS in movie theater; audience watching onscreen fight in film; VS CU male and female audience members reacting to scene; audience applauses.
23:10:54:23 CU Film projectionist adjusts knob on projector.
23:11:13:22 Ten film cans in two stacks of five; CU two film reels.
23:11:32:26 Female teacher behind film projector, shows film to high school class.
23:11:37:23 Great superimposition shot of various projectors rotating and spinning film reels surrounding primary projector in center of shot.| How Motion Pictures Move And Talk | |
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| Produced by | 0 |
Production company | 0 |
| Distributed by | 0 |
Release date | 1940 |
Running time | 11:00 |
| Language | English |
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