Sound film

High school (ages 12+)
Art & Creativity

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/sound-film

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the first public exhibition of projected sound film?1900, Paris
2. What is the commercial viability emerged?Mid-to-late 1920s
3. How did sound films start?The first sound films were made in the 1920s. They used special machines that put the sound onto the film strip or onto a disc, so the picture and the noise stayed together.
4. Why was The Jazz Singer so important?The Jazz Singer was the first big movie with talking parts. It was very popular and showed that sound movies could be a huge success, so many other studios started making them.

Synchronization: The precise alignment of recorded sound with the moving images on screen.
Vitaphone: An early sound-on-disc system used for motion pictures, prominent in the late 1920s.
Aesthetic Virtues: The artistic qualities and unique characteristics of a particular art form, like silent cinema's visual storytelling.
Cinematic Language: The techniques and conventions used by filmmakers to convey meaning and emotion to an audience.