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Learning to Talk (2003)
52m
In LEARNING TO TALK, director's Eric Lang and Serge Bromberg dive deep into the fascinating and often times hilarious history of sound in film.
Beginning with experiments that far preceded the "talkies", this documentary examines the many trials and tribulations of attempting to bring sound to film, particularly "Live Sound Accompaniments", in which live performers would produce music and sound effects to match the images on screen, "Sound on Disc", where actors would essentially be lip-singing to a pre-recorded soundtrack, and eventually "Sound on Film" whose early attempts at amplification needed help from technologies crafted in World War I.
INCLUDES ENGLISH SDH