MUSIC246 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cinemascope, Dimitri Tiomkin, Agnes De Mille
28 Aug 2015
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End of the studio system: a. k. a. its illegal. Challenge of new media-television: a. k. a. the convenience of entertainment at home. Battle with television accelerates the move to all colour movies. Hollywood begins to experiment with various systems to create a wide-screen image. Multiple systems in competition (just like sound) such as cinerama, cinemascope and vista vision. Also saw the development of the rst multi-channel sound systems for theatres, to compete with the terrible sounds coming from a television. Epic lms: quo vadis, the robe, julius ceasar, lawrence of arabia, cleopatra, the. Ben hur: the chariot scene shoes the scope of the widescreen. Its like 5 minutes of spectacle that you could not get on television. As well as big musical scores to go with it. March 1930: the production code (hays of ce) Films of the 1940s push the code, lms of the 1950s begin to break it all together. Television content is more restricted due to in uence of advertisers.
