The earthquake In September 1923, Tokyo became a hell on earth. In less than three days, a magnitude approximate 7.9 earthquake and subsequent conflagrations reduced nearly half of Japan’s capital to a blackened, rubble-filled, corpse-strewn wasteland of desolation. The human tragedy of over 120,000 killed and 2 million left homeless was matched in severity by […]
The Atlantic Forest domain stretches from the northeastern to the southern regions of Brazil and northern Argentina and southeastern Paraguay. In the northeastern part of Brazil it occupies a thin coastal strip not exceeding 40 miles in width, while in the south it extends from the coast to as far as 200 miles inland. It harbors around 2,200 species […]
Georges Sadoul, on his book Histoire du Cinéma Mondial, des Origines à nos Jours, published in 1949, commented on the revolution that had been taking ground, concerning sound: The flexibility of the magnetic process has allowed to build soundtracks in which the assembly of noise assumes a role as important as the words and music. I assume I have a good translated version of this book, […]
This is one of a series of posts I’d like to keep writing about. To begin, I want to share this amazing article by Dion Hanson of Dolby Laboratories. Bellow, I provide links to clips of films mentioned in the article. I hope you enjoy it! The History of Sound in the Cinema Don Juan (1926): first sound […]
Melissa Pons 