This is a nice illustration of the influence of the New Wave on Scorsese, but some of your examples are confusing or incorrect, particularly the ones that are supposed to illustrate the jump-cut. "Shoot the piano-player," for example, edits together different shots that repeat part of the action, with the purpose of extending the movement of the finger towards the doorbell, to suggest hesitance. That's a form of repeat cut, not a jump cut. Likewise, in the clip from the opening of "Mean Streets," Scorsese does not "time the jump cuts to the music"-first of all because there are barely 3 cuts in that clip, and none of them matches the beat of the music; but also because, there are no jump cuts whatsoever in what you showed. There is one cut that disrupts traditional continuity, when Keitel rests his head on the pillow twice (the second time from at a slightly different angle), but that's a "repeat cut" or "stutter cut," which is the opposite of the jump cut. A jump cut is a noticeable interruption of a continuous take, that gives the impression that part of the take has been cut out.. A simple cut to a shot that shows a different portion of the same space, from a different angle, is not a jump-cut.

awesome explanation

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vce drama anyone?

Back then you could mix in a rudimentary way. In "The Canary Murder Case" from 1929, for example, which was half-finished and then made into a sound film, Louise Brooks' vocals were overdubbed. The animated film “Finding His Voice” from 1929, which explains the technology at the time, is interesting in this context.

D.W. Griffith’s “Abraham Lincoln” (1930) was a movie that suffered from all of the problems mentioned in this video

I recall some of the silent stars claiming that "the talkies killed the movies" & this has been a thought of which has pervaded my mined. To think soviet montage theory was concieved soo shortly to the invention of sound & the fact that after sounds popularity studios began to hire theater directors whom of which knew little to none about the filmic medium makes you think of the potential of silent films if sound had been prolongued by even just 2-3 years. 1927 (when the jazz singer was released) is deemed by many as one of the best years for silent cinema (metropolis, wings, sunrise, napoleon)... It may be strange to think that people once concidered the death of film to be sound when nowadays most attribute it to marvel & sequals (such opinions have validity), yet people were making such opinions 100 years ago which technology we intereract with everyday.

I don't think Chaplin failed. Have you seen The Great Dictator

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Lovely, thank you

Fantastic, essay, sir! You have a new & grateful subscriber.

I wonder if the sloppy sliding of the tennis player's feet indicates he's not only going to be a clever tennis player but a slippery but good character...

3:52 what is the name of this film?

why we gotta do national treasure dirty like that

That movie was 25 years ahead of its time.

fantastic video. thank you!

Great video.

good video the black face caught me a little off guard

What is the song in the beginning at 18 seconds pleaseeee

It's hard to image an orchestra being on the set of a film, how far we have come.

The frames of early talkies have the edges cut off because initially early talkies were sound on disc. That system did not work very well, so by the end of 1930 movies had switched to sound on film, with the soundtrack on the edge of the film strip. This required the edge of the picture being cut off.

Hello. This is such a fine look at Hitchcock’s technique that the single error I find puzzles me terribly, because it’s very clear that the hand carrying the coffee cup in Notorious is no prop. Did I misunderstand you? Thanks!

The early sound era was the best era of film until the 1970s. The 1940s and 1950s produced nothing but garbage for low IQ viewers since they were censored by idiots. But I can see how that pathetic era would appeal to low IQ democrats who loved censorship

What a lunatic. So many errors in this it is unbelievable. For starters, many early sound films used a sound on disc system so that the film contained a larger image then normal sound on film film. When these were later converted to sound on film some of the image had to be cropped off. The guy narrating this video is a complete moron. Especially for using garbage clips from 1950s films to represent the era

I’m not saying I know everything about cinema-I definitely don’t-but it’s rare for me to find a video on movies about a topic that I know _nothing_ about (or, for that matter, has not been covered by dozens of other videos) Thanks-that was a really fascinating video about the early days of sound in film.

Great video, thanks 👍

In that era, a few directors evolved from silent movies to talkies era

All silent on the western front.

In cinema I love those scenes where you can clearly see what is going on in the background. Those big shots where you can see multiple characters et cetera. You can clearly see this in full effect in films such as De Palma's Body Double and Boon Jong-ho's Parasite.

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Well done!

The man was a known sexual pervert. Do your research

Without dialogue, how do you follow the plot?! I'm a matriarch, I've been around for a while. This show was absolutely one of my favorites. You follow the plot through the music, the sound, the visual. It all comes together in your head.💞

This is about to happen again with AI

Thank you so much.. its too strange how academic you vudeo and how poor viewing it got.. you deserve a great success ❤❤❤❤

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"Very few films of this era, roughly from 1928 to 1932, are considered classics today." I think this is only true if you ignore 1931. There were a lot of really good movies that year.

i love your videos so much!!

All well and good for directors. The challenge is for screenwriters to craft a script that provides the director with the material to emulate the skills Hitchcock.

Hitchcock made some of my favorite movies. But that *hands* scene from Marnie might be the worst scene of any movie I’ve watched.

I love Preston Sturges. My favorite film is unfaithfully yours what is very underrated compared to his other films. But the entire concept and idea behind that movie is so genius. And to my amazement never tried ever since. To base a script entirely on a piece of music. And it is amazingly executed.

I hope you continue to make videos, this was great.

I cant imagine being an actor during the time of silent movies then being put in a sound movie after having a whole career of silence, it must be so awkward

3:00 Oh, so that’s why, in Singing In The Rain, the microphone picked up Lina’s heartbeat.

まさに、オーソ・ンウェルズの野心が創り出した奇跡。

This is so informative! Thank you for making it.

There are some newer shows that are more episodic than they are about a very long story arc. BBC's Sherlock and Hannibal (season 1 & 2) come to my mind.

Great video , please can you name the movie name of cavalry charge scene at 0:19 , thank you 🙏

I'm working on bringing silent films back from my studio.