4th chapter: THE CINEMA AND ITS SOUND ERA in the 1930s
1930s: Film and Theater Although many people and businesses suffered during the Great Depression (1929–41), the movie industry did not. In fact, the years of the 1930s are considered the golden era of Hollywood cinema. Eighty-five million people a week crowded movie theaters across America to escape their sometimes desperate financial situations. From black-and-white and two-color "B" movies to new three-color Technicolor "A" movies, audiences had huge quantities of movies from which to choose. (Babylon scene) ORIGIN OF MUSIC IN CINEMA: Silent Film and Sound Film Since the first cinematograph was invented by the Lumières brothers in 1895, in Paris, silent cinema dates back to that date. By not having voices, it was a cinema based on the expressiveness of mimicry, of gestures. At first the film had no sound, but the projec...
