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La belle époque du parlant : panorama de la chronophonie à l'aube du vingtième siècle
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Jory, Emmanuel |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | The desire to add sound to moving pictures can be traced back to the very beginnings of cinema, notably in the experiments conducted by Edison, Lioret, and Messter. This thesis follows the path opened twenty years ago by researchers trying to demonstrate that the use of “in” sound predates the 1927 film The Jazz Singer (Alan Crosland). It will focus on Léon Gaumont's work on the synchronisation of image and sound through his device, the Chronophone, examining how this attempt at sound synchronisation can be understood as a part of early cinema's attraction process, during the era of multiple inventions and experimentations, from the end of the 19th century to 1914 approximately. In fact, since early cinema is essentially an “exhibitionist” practice, the addition of post-synchronized sound appears to reinforce its predominantly attractive nature: pictures not only “come to life”, but also “make themselves heard”, making the cinematographic experience all the more intrinsically sensorial. This new attractive dimension is manifest in several instances: from the animated views manufacturer to the director, the exhibitor, and obviously, the spectator. Different types of “phonic views” produced by the Gaumont company are studied, raising parallel questions regarding, on the one hand, the apparatus involved and, on the other hand, the monstrative paradigm to which these views belong. These elements make it possible to distinguish the different levels at which the frontier between the “attraction of attractions” and the attraction of synchronized sound itself is drawn. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1866/11025/Jory_Emmanuel_m%C3%A9moire_2014.pdf?isAllowed=y&sequence=2 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
