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This list includes film titles, release dates, production companies, audio type and archive status; denoting whether they exist, are lost or incomplete, the film or audio elements exist only, as well as the number of discs extant for films recorded with Vitaphone soundtracks.
By the early 1930s, sound had become fully integrated into the film industry, leading to the end of the silent film era and the rise of “talkies.” Hollywood studios that adapted to sound quickly, such as Warner Bros. and Fox, thrived, while those slow to adopt the technology struggled.
In 1928 Warner Brothers produced the first "100% talkie," Lights of New York, and the era of the sound film was fully underway. By 1929 fully three-fourths of all Hollywood films had some form of sound accompaniment, and by 1930 silent films were no longer being produced.
7 paź 2014 · Viewing more than two hundred films from the period, Michael Slowik launches the first comprehensive study of a long-neglected phase in HollywoodÕs initial development, recasting the history of...
Premiering February 1, 1929, MGM's The Broadway Melody was the first smash-hit talkie from a studio other than Warner Bros. and the first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
21 paź 2014 · This article examines the critical reception of love scenes in early Hollywood sound films (1928–1933). Why were love scenes so unsuccessful, and what did Hollywood do to fix the problem? Hollywood… Expand. Diegetic Withdrawal and Other Worlds: Film Music Strategies before King Kong, 1927–1933. Michael Slowik. History, Art. 2013.
1 gru 2015 · Instead of crude, static sonic practices hobbled by technological limitations, Slowik finds a wide range of musical influences, practices, and techniques at work in an evolving and contested sound landscape in late 1920s and early 1930s Hollywood.
