Contents
Introduction, Richard Abel and Rick Altman
I. A Context of Intermediality
1. Ian Christie, Early Phonograph Culture and Moving Pictures
2. Tom Gunning, Doing for the Eye What the Phonograph Does for the Ear
3. Mats Bjorkin, Remarks on Writing and Technologies of Sound in Early Cinema
4. Richard Crangle, 'Next Slide Please': The Lantern Lecture in Britain, 1890-1910
5. Francois Jost, The Ways of Silence
6. Edouard Arnoldy, The Event and the Series: The Decline of Cafe-Concerts, the Failure of Gaumont's Chronphone and the Birth of Cinema as Art
II. Sound Practices in Production
7. Isabelle Raynauld, Dialogues in Silent Screenplays: What the Actors Really Said
8. Bernard Perron, The First Transi-Sounds of Parallel Editing
9. John Fullerton, Sound, the Jump Cut, and 'Trickality' in Early Danish Comedies
10. Dominique Nasta, Setting the Pace of a Heartbeat: The Use of Sound Elements in European Melodramas Before 1915
11. Rashit Yangirov, Talking Movie or Silent Theater: Creative Experiments by Vasily Goncharov
III. Sound Practices in Exhibition
12. Gregory Waller, Sleighbells and Moving Pictures: On the Trail of D. W. Robertson
13. Stephen Bottomore, The Story of Percy Peashaker: Debates about Sound Effects in the Early Cinema
14. Richard Abel, That Most American of Attractions, the Illustrated Song
15. Jeffrey Klenotic, 'The Sensational Acme of Realism': 'Talker' Pictures as Early Cinema Sound Practice
16. Lauren Rabinovitz, 'Bells and Whistles': The Sound of Meaning in Train Travel Film Rides
IV. Spectators and Politics
17. Jean Chateauvert and Andre Gaudreault, The Noises of Spectators, or the Spectator as Additive to the Spectacle
18. Jacques Polet, Early Cinematographic Spectacles: The Role of Sound Accompaniment in the Reception of Moving Images
19. Marta Braun and Charlie Keil, Sounding Canadian: Early Sound Practices and Nationalism in Toronto-Based Exhibition
20. Germain Lacasse, The Double Silence of the 'War To End All Wars'
V. Film Music
21. Patrick Loughney, Domitor Witnesses the First Complete Public Presentation of the [Dickson Experimental Sound Film] in the 20th Century
22. David Mayer and Helen Day-Mayer, A 'Secondary Action' or Musical Highlight? Melodic Interludes in Early Film Melodrama Reconsidered
23. Rick Altman, The Living Nickelodeon
24. Herbert Reynolds, The Record of Special Music Scores for Kalem Films
25. Jane Gaines and Neil Lerner, The Orchestration of Affect: Motif of Barbarism in Breil's The Birth of a Nation Score
Appendix: Original French Texts
A. Francois Jost, Les Voies du silence
B. Edouard Arnoldy, L'Evenement et le serie: Le declin du cafe-concert, l'echec du Chronophone Gaumont et la naissance de l'Art Cinematographique
C. Bernard Perron, Les transi-sons du cinema des premiers temps
D. Andre Gaudreault and Jean Chateauvert, Les bruits des spectateurs
E. Jacques Polet, Le spectacle cinematographique des premiers temps: fonctions des accompagnements sonores dans la reception des images animees
F. Germain Lacasse, Le double silence de la 'derniere guerre'
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