The Movies Learn to Talk

[@hebneh]

I remember my father watching this TV program, "The Twentieth Century", in the early 1960s. At first I was bored by it but after awhile, began to watch it myself. And decades later, here I am, a professional historian.

[@lukeswall5999]

hebneh this from 1959 I believe

[@eggbertinkabod1121]

DUMB ASS

[@eggbertinkabod1121]

@@lukeswall5999 🙄

[@lukeswall5999]

TYRONE POWER lol what?

[@saintmichael1779]

I was too young, born in 1955, but my Dad watched this program. I can see why. There was no man like Walter Cronkite. "And that's the way it is..." We knew that that's the way it was, because Walter Cronkite said so.

[@debrabridges9501]

When I was a little girl, I watched this series with my mother. Nice memories. Ty.

[@fromthesidelines]

19:12- this sequence was originally seen in the 1950 AMPAS/Columbia short, "The Soundman", demonstrating how sound engineers "mixed" various sounds into a horse race scene for a 1948 Columbia feature, "The Return of October".

[@haweater1555]

Thank you for posting this on YT. Before Periscope Films gets ahold of it and plasters it with a watermark and on-screen frame counter.

[@knockshinnoch1950]

Amazing, I had no idea about the earliest experiments this info is usually omitted when telling the story of talkies

[@eggbertinkabod1121]

SHUT UP

[@IHateYoutubeHandlesVeryMuch]

@@eggbertinkabod1121 no u

[@lynnturman8157]

@@eggbertinkabod1121 Your invective is insipid & obtuse.

[@racheln8563]

I know. Imagine my surprise at hearing the name of Theodore Case mentioned in a documentary made this long ago. This was made when most written histories of the early sound era failed to mention him, and I can think of no other documentary of that time that did. I personally didn’t hear of him until Kevin Brownlow and David Gill’s documentary “Hollywood” in the seventies.

[@angelinasamson6996]

This fascinates me

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally telecast on October 25, 1959, on CBS.

[@eggbertinkabod1121]

SO

[@1954crc]

Hmmm, I was in kindergarten at that time.

[@hamburgareable]

14:49-14:52 This is the boss himself, Jack L. Warner.

[@Arthur_McGowan]

For most people, the first electrical recordings they heard reproduced electrically were the Vitaphone soundtracks. They were impressive.

[@williamdmason9375]

Thanks Rod For these spectacular essential viewing materials and I might say before my time and Hollywood casting another spell on myself from beginning to the end a magical journey through the ups and downs of Hollywoods fortunes and fails but the Show Must Go On!...Regardless in its own unique Way , Montages Extraodinaire And very grateful considering the prevailing times today on medical martial law enforcement lockdowns...Slangevar Rod Frae Beautiful Bonnie Scotland...

[@r5t6y7u8]

(While early film are admittedly primitive, remember these clips are a hundred years old. They looked and sounded much better when first released.)

[@dearprudence2260]

It's unnerving in a way to be watching a film, a silent but no less a film with people in it that may well have been born before the half 19th century mark.

[@flipflopsguy8868]

2:27 Comedian, Director, Producer Mack Sennett early in his career in grey suit and bowler hat.

[@robertwshephard4454]

The real beauty of this was listening to Walter Cronkite. Someone you could rely on.

[@glennso47]

Little did we know that he was a flaming liberal.

[@davidgibson7615]

@@glennso47 so. And your point is?

[@Arthur_McGowan]

We thought so. But he was a globalist Commie.

[@harrylangdon491]

Has some early material not in other docs on history of sound movies, and I've seen about half a dozen. Wonder how the Great Cronkite would be viewed by today's audience?

[@hamburgareable]

At last, the voice killed the silence..

[@eamonahern7495]

Now we can watch movies in colour and high definition on devices we can hold in our hands that can be operated by simply touching a glass screen.

[@seniorelchoya22]

i remember seeing this in high school in the early 70s.

[@fromthesidelines]

Various episodes of "THE TWENTIETH CENTURY" were distributed for classroom use through the 1970's.

[@oobrocks]

First projection: December 28th, 1895 in Paris

[@fromthesidelines]

The Lumiere brothers.

[@johnmonkus4600]

They tried to play the 20 frames per second with a 24 frames a second projector.

[@sivanandadas4761]

Thank you sir. Thanks god.

[@TheDavid77829]

❤ what nobody told anybody was the studio's told their big stars that if they want to be heard on film did have to pay half

[@bkenglandUTube]

The clip of the guy playing the cello with stuff dropped on him from an upstairs window (6:53) is hilarious. Does anyone know any details about this one?

[@glennso47]

How come they don’t have Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie.

[@hooliganhap]

I remember seeing a clip of Steamboat Willie in the original broadcast in 1959. It may have been removed for later reissue. Same with a Greta Garbo sequence.

[@ihalloway]

18:14" the soundman is king , cameraman and performers are his slaves" :`)

[@GabrielJimenez-pc3qv]

what movie is at 4:29?

[@micahbowen184]

If motion pictures keep evolving they will be unwatchable.. Most already are

[@fromthesidelines]

Have you ever seen "The Emoji Movie"? That's an excellent example of what you speak of. 😏

[@redvine1105]

And now I watch videos of cats falling off tables while I take a shit

[@fromthesidelines]

People watched similar "entertainments" on Edison's Kinetoscopes over 130 years ago. But you had to wait until the film was over before you could relieve yourself, or you'd miss the entire 30-60 seconds of images-- and the penny you fed into the machine.

[@robfriedrich2822]

One question, when does movies learn to talk back?

[@williamjones7163]

The movies learn to talk. But not color. Copyright MCMLIX (1959)

[@2eAsyf0rm3]

10:19 - 10:57 what version of don juan is this? The version I see on the internet only has sword fight sound effects and it sounded very different.

[@lynnturman8157]

Audio killed the pantomime star

[@fastestspring8491]

16:32 Dave Chappelle 🤣🤦🏾‍♂️😭😭😭🤧

[@kentdean3882]

From this to Atmos and God knows where from here ... a "Brainstorm" type setup, perhaps?

[@jpsimmons5100]

Sound-on-cylinder is good but sound-on-disc is better but sound-on-film is much better.

[@KevinSvetlich]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@fromthesidelines]

0:44- "...as THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA presents- 'THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'."

[@glennso47]

Or Screw-dential insurance company.

[@fromthesidelines]

Bill Shipley speaking for Prudential.

[@Dr.Pepper001]

16:23 When will "The Jazz Singer" be banned by Congress? Strike that... banned by Congress and the decision upheld by the Supreme Court.

[@waderaney7]

Pity it wasn't done properly from the start😉

[@ihalloway]

6:58 from where it is ?

[@merlinmediagroup]

This film is incredibly propagandist, presenting a narrative in which Edison invented all of these things which of course he did not. At least not singlehandedly.

[@danijelujcic8644]

I'm surprised Lee de Forest was mentioned at all. Unlike Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.