MUSIC 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: African-American Culture, Miklós Rózsa, Art Music
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2 leading technologies in 1920s: putting sound on a record and syncing them, or a system that records sound on itself: you can edit records. Quickly the sound on lm, which solved the synchronization problems but had poor quality end of the 1920s the sound was better. 1930s: sound on lm has become the way of the future. 20th century came out of 2 studios: 20th and century. 1920s and 30s the age of the studio system: the big ve- mgm, paramount, warner brothers, 20th century fox (1935), and rko, the little three- universal, colombia, and united artists. These 8 studios became the studio system . Film makers are looking for ways to keep lm production as inexpensive as possible. Studios begin to hire everybody they need they become an employee they sign a contract: actors would be signed to long term contracts with studios. Sound technology caused expenses to increase drastically.
