Essay from the year 2005 in the subject Communications - Media History; grade: 1;3; University of Southampton (University of Southampton - School of Humanities: Film Studies); course: Image; Sound and Narrative in Late Weimar Cinem; 15 entries in the bibliography; language: English; abstract: ldquo;Put speech into films; and you will get speech plus film but you will not get a film.rdquo; Although; initially; sound films were considered to be only a temporary phenomenon that would never replace the silent picture; the transition to talkies proceeded more and more in Weimar cinema of the late 20rsquo;s; and; in 1931/32; the sound film completely replaced its predecessor; which had gone out of fashion finally. Yet; the new invention unmistakably evoked numerous debates about whether the addition of sound to cinema pictures rather should be seen as a pro- or regress within the evolution of film art. In view of that; this essay discusses the advantages and drawbacks of silent as well as of sound films. [...]
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