talkie, talking
It is still hope so much gold collection to several large industrial and glimpse new horizons. .. film, especially the American public ... which ... was the first to be against. Later it was the Roman public that one of the larger rooms where reigns the sound film, reacted protest, whistling and often making a pandemonium, and the London in which a referendum launched by the London Times, declared himself against the film teatralizzante.
celebrities and competent spoke against the film only just remember Charlie Chaplin and Carl Laemmle. The film
talking on the screen. for example, sexual Hayakawa and Mae Murray, and gave comfort to the cinema to singers such as Tito Schipa, Titta Ruffo, Beniamino Gigli, Giovanni Martinelli, Giuseppe De Luca, Nino Costantini, Marie Bell, Chaliapin, etc..
Crisis (inaspettatissima) of American cinema and German
Del bluff American wrote A. Verrico:
The advertisement has swept the smoke that hid the true face of the city of illusion. In due proportion, what happened is happening in Hollywood in the postwar Italian film: a superabundance of porduzione; mad rush to the news for the novelty; launched superstars and divas from the breed of dog, and, above all, the colossal mistake of will at all costs overcome the European film industry, to win it, demolish it. And here's the payoff: the exhaustion of producers, tired of the public.seems that it must be precisely this bluff and sound film silent exodus of artists such as Pola Negri, Adolphe Menjou, Monty Banks, etc.). They say that Mecca of cinema.
In Germany, the silent film has found obstacles in the sale and manufacture of sound does it cost so much not to be accessible to very few houses. From January to June 1928 were made in Germany up to 112 movies, and in the same period of 1929 they were made just 63.
The invention of the film in three dimensions
Invention of the technicians of RCA Photophone Company, New York:
With this kind of movie you get the impression of depth, height and width, as if the scene to take place on a regular stage. Along with the reproduction of sound with the possibility of applying proven sixteen different colors, the three-dimensional film will lead to a revolution of the talking film, while achieving extraordinary stage effects.
lights and shadows in the 1929 film
United States. Hollywood trying to leave the pincers of the crisis lies the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America Inc., which brings together all the major film production and trade. The main publishing
seek alliances: so, for example, Warner signed a contract with First National for the production of shared-talkies Vitaphone, and United Artists he signed another film with the Earth in Berlin, so this takes care of United Artists film distribution in Germany.
The government of President Hoover spends himself in any way because the crisis does not spread, and it has taken the statuquo for another year of French quota authorizing the export to America of a French film against seven Americans imported into France .
The States United States Artists, who edited the film Queen Kelly, on behalf of Gloria Swanson Productions, under the auspices of the financier Joseph Kennedy, said that this blockbuster will not be presented to the public because
E 'result a poor job, despite the $ 800,000 spent to achieve it.Bad times for fans of American stars: those who want a photograph with signature of his favorite stars will first send a dollar ... to his favorite star. Moral: Even in Hollywood prices are skyrocketing.
Germany. Remarkable increase of Emelka House, which takes control of 18 theaters Swiss Compagnie Générale Cinématographique. Scandal caused by the failure of Chekhov Produktion GmbH, whose principal exponent, the charming Olga, not content, he founded a new company for the production of his films without putting However, this time (very smart, to Bacchus!), Its name in the name: Filmkuenstler GMBH
England. Elstree is preparing to inherit the fortune of Hollywood. The BIP (which manages 78 cinema) ascends from the administrative side with phenomenal speed (from a balance sheet at March 31, 1929 shows a profit of 194,000 pounds), and from the production (agreement between the British Talking Pic. Klang and the Berlin Film Development of the European sound film).
Russia. Rebirth of Russian film: the foundation of the publishing Meschrapon in Moscow, who signed some contract with English and German Case for the development of sound film; happened to the Berlin film Hurricane on Asia, Galera, Battleship Potemkin, The Last Days of Petroburgo ( Krassin and Italy, and Ivan the Terrible). Among the completed film
in 1929: Life is beautiful and the general line.
In Berlin, the Russian film element was highly represented in the Russian-German Case: Derussa (failed shamefully) and Prometheus Film.
They expect results by the Associated Irish Films (Ireland), and the National Film Festival (Barcelona, \u200b\u200bSpain), the usual fate with good intentions.
Little news from Canada (a sign of rebirth in Vancouver) and Portugal (export permit for a national film against ten major foreign).
India. The film companies are becoming more numerous and variety of Indian films every day. Founded the Royal Pictures Corporation (Lahore) and the Artistic Pictures Corporation (Bombay), working at full capacity, the Great Eastern Corporation (Delhi), and Classical Pictures Corporation (Bombay). Photo
remember 1929: George Bernard Shaw, Captain Mackintosh executive of St. George Productions Ltd., Alice Terry, and Rex Ingram in the movie The three passions.
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