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    Silent Film and Music

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    types of music heard in original scores during the silent film era and cites specific examples from The Birth of a Nation. (10 points) The three basic types of music heard in original scores during the silent film era are Adaptations of Classics‚ Arrangements of tunes‚ and newly composed music. In most cases‚ adaptation of classics involves action and dramatic scenes. It is borrowing a large amount of an already existing composition for use in film score. In The Birth of a Nation‚ Mozart’s music

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    prefer modern day films to silent films. I agree with you that silent films are very boring and dull compared to modern day films. Modern day films have more advanced technology making the film better in general. But it is good to understand and learn about silent films even though you don’t enjoy them‚ they are an important part of history. Modern films have a lot of characters and have a bigger better storyline to follow. There are plenty of other things that make modern day films better like music

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    The Roaring Twenties The Era between 1920-1930 was an exuberant deal. In this specific Era‚ boredom was not an option. One of the many things that went on in this decade‚ was called "The Silent Movie Era". The longer it went on‚ the more it progressed. In this Era‚ numerous people become well- known and very famous. Many actors and actresses played roles in all sorts of movies. Some of these famous actors and actresses were Rudolph Valentino‚ Charlie Chaplin‚ Clara Bow

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    The Relevance of Sound in Silent Films Before the introduction of sound in the film industry‚ two prominent silent films during the 1920’s were Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror and The Battleship Potemkin. In Chapter 11 of The Film Experience‚ Corrigan and White pose a question regarding the use of sound in silent films. Corrigan and White asked whether sound allows film to fulfill a mission to reproduce the world‚ as it is‚ or if sound hinders cinema’s visual expression. Considering Corrigan

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    Silent Night

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    silent night SILENT NIGHT: The Song Heard ’Round The World by Bill Egan‚ Christmas Historian 180 years ago the carol "Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht" was heard for the first time in a village church in Oberndorf‚ Austria. The congregation at that Midnight Mass in St. Nicholas Church listened as the voices of the assistant pastor‚ Fr. Joseph Mohr‚ and the choir director‚ Franz Xaver Gruber‚ rang through the church to the accompaniment of Fr. Mohr’s guitar. On each of the six verses‚ the choir repeated

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    silent spring

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    Name Instructor Environmental Studies and Forestry Date Silent Spring by Rachel Carson – Review Silent Spring is a widely-read environmental book published on September 27‚ 1962‚ by Houghton Mifflin. Rachel Carson‚ a renowned environmentalist‚ wrote this book to express her concerns over the human abuse of the environment. In this work‚ Carson vividly expresses and documents how the use of pesticides in agriculture indiscriminately affects the natural environment. She primarily focuses on how

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    Silent Spring

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    Smirnov 1 Daniil I. Smirnov Mr. Rienhoff AP Lang & Comp 18 Sept. 2012 Silent Spring Chunk Essay Dangerous insecticidal practices run rampant across the United States‚ and no one is doing a single thing to stop them. Rachel Carson published an infamously controversial book hailed as Silent Spring in1962 in which she tries to convince her audience that it is their civic duty as human beings to prevent unreasonable pesticide methods from ever taking place. Carson denounces the simple act of farming

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    Silent Spring

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    In the book "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson‚ Rachel describes the damage of pesticides on the environment which had not yet been well known because of the hidden truth. Officials have either denied or prevented speaking about the harm of dangerous chemicals even though humans were negatively affected by it. This quote references the ideal expectation of a civilization because it generates the idea that a civilization can only be classified as one‚ as long as they avoid destruction. The occurrence

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    The introduction of sound drastically changed Hollywood. Silent movies dominated early Hollywood‚ but sound quickly took the throne when people discovered how to make “talkies” during the late 1920s. Not only did the introduction of sound films lead to the demise of silent films‚ it also impacted the industry film style in Hollywood. As Hollywood studios experimented with the incorporation of sound into their films‚ it brought about significant changes‚ such as subtler acting‚ the beginnings of Foley

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    Silent Movies (Summary)

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    SILENT MOVIES Talk to people who saw films for the first time when they were silent‚ and they will tell you the experience was magic. The silent film‚ with music‚ had extraordinary powers to draw an audience into the story‚ and an equally potent capacity to make their imagination work. They had to supply the voices and the sound effects‚ and because their minds were engaged‚ they appreciated the experience all the more. The audience was the final creative contributor to the process of making a film

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