The Sound of Early Cinema

SUMARIO. Early phonograph culture and moving pictures ; Ian Christie / Doing for the eye what the phonograph does for the ear ; Tom Gunning / Remarks on writing and technologies of sound in early cinema ; Mats Björkin / Next slide please : the Lantern Lecture in Britain, 1890-1910 ; Richard Crangle / The voices of silence ; François Jost / The event and the series : the decline of café-concerts, the failure of Gaumont's chronophone, and the birth of cinema as an art ; Edouard Arnoldy / Dialogues in early silent screenplays : what actors really said ; Isabelle Raynauld / The first transi-sounds of parallel editing ; Bernard Perron / Sound, the jump cut, and trickality in early Danish comedies ; John Fullerton / Setting the pace of a heartbeat : the use of sound elements in European melodramas before 1915 ; Dominique Nasta / Talking movie or silent theater? Creative experiments by Vasily Goncharov ; Rashit M. Yangirov / Sleighbells and moving pictures : on the trail of D.W. Robertson ; Gregory Waller / The story of Percy Peashaker : debates about sound effects in the early cinema ; Stephen Bottomore / That most American of attractions, the illustrated song ; Richard Abel / The sensational acme of realism : talker pictures as early cinema sound practice ; Jeffrey Klenotic / Bells and whistles : the sound of meaning in train travel film rides ; Lauren Rabinovitz / The noises of spectators, or the spectator as additive to the spectacle ; Jean Châteauvert and André Gaudreault / Early cinematographic spectacles : the role of sound accompaniment in the reception of moving images ; Jacques Polet / Sounding Canadian : early sound practices and nationalism in Toronto-based exhibition ; Marta Braun and Charlie Keil / The double silence of the war to end all wars ; Germain Lacasse / Domitor witnesses the first complete public presentation of the [Dickson experimental sound film] in the twentieth century ; Patrick Loughney / A secondary action or musical highlight? Melodic interludes in early film melodrama reconsidered ; David Mayer and Helen Day-Mayer / The living nickelodeon ; Rick Altman / Music for Kalem films : the special scores, with notes on Walter C. Simon ; Herbert Reynolds / The orchestration of affect : the motif of barbarism in Breil's The birth of a nation score ; Jane Gaines and Neil Lerner.