San Francisco, CA -- The San Francisco Film Society announced today that acclaimed film editor and sound designer Walter Murch will deliver the annual State of Cinema Address at the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival (April 22 - May 6) at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas Sunday, April 25 at 4:00 pm.
Murch's address, "Three Fathers of Cinema: Beethoven, Flaubert, Edison," will contemplate what would have happened if motion pictures had been invented in 1789. He will present various theories on the evolution of filmmaking, investigating the cultural origins of cinema in the 19th century and the implications for the future of cinema in the 21st century.
"We are thrilled to have Walter Murch deliver our State of Cinema Address at the Festival this year," said Graham Leggat, executive director of the San Francisco Film Society. "His extensive contributions to filmmaking and the pioneering steps he has taken in the field provide him with...
Murch's address, "Three Fathers of Cinema: Beethoven, Flaubert, Edison," will contemplate what would have happened if motion pictures had been invented in 1789. He will present various theories on the evolution of filmmaking, investigating the cultural origins of cinema in the 19th century and the implications for the future of cinema in the 21st century.
"We are thrilled to have Walter Murch deliver our State of Cinema Address at the Festival this year," said Graham Leggat, executive director of the San Francisco Film Society. "His extensive contributions to filmmaking and the pioneering steps he has taken in the field provide him with...
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- Makingof.com
WASHINGTON -- The Jazz Singer is generally regarded as the starting point for the talkies, but experiments that wedded sound with the moving picture had been going on for a long time before Al Jolson first sang on film in 1927. Thomas Edison himself tinkered with the idea as early as 1894, and while it lacks the poetical nature of Jolson singing "You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet," the Dickson Experimental Sound Film is probably the oldest "talkie" in existence. The film, made by the Edison lab sometime between 1894 and 1895, features W.K.L. Dickson playing a violin into a big megaphone while two other Edison employees dance the fox trot. It is only 17 seconds long, but it marks the first time two inventions, the Kinetograph and the phonograph, were used simultaneously.
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- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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