Iluminace 2005, 17(3):47-81

"Birth" of Cinema History: Coming of Film Sound and Media Inventing their Own Past

Petr Szczepanik

The study examines the issue of the film medium with the advent of standardized synchronous sound in the 1920s-1930s and the corresponding processes in the mass media of the time. The author traces the origins of national film archives and film historiography and pays special attention to the emergence of sound in Czech cinema.

Keywords: sound film; sound reproduction; film archives and institutions; technical development; technical equipment; image and sound synchronization; sound recording

Published: September 1, 2005  Show citation

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Szczepanik, P. (2005). "Birth" of Cinema History: Coming of Film Sound and Media Inventing their Own Past. Iluminace, 17(3), 47-81
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