Advancement Of Theater Essay

As I read about the history and advancement of theater I noticed that movies only advanced as technology did. I say this because as new technologies were made and new discoveries found involving sound and film production the movies eventually adapted from what they used to be to even greater things. The first major development was the introduction to sound into film. This was always wanted in films but unfortunately due to technology limitations it was not a viable idea and thus movies remained mostly silent only conveying things through the actor’s actions and sometimes with text cards if a characters lines needed to be known for the movie. This was the norm for a good while until more development was made concerning the recording and imprinting of sound. With these advancements it was made
This advancement took much longer to integrate into film than sound as putting color onto a film strip was a much more complicated process than putting sound to the film. There were many different attempts made at adding color to movies by using dyes and stencils but most were either not good enough or, when referring to the dyes, would actually interfere with the sound in the movies. Most of the time color was an after thought as it was so hard to accomplish and actually made production costs much more than they were when it was just black and white film with color. Color in film was usually never a main necessity but more of a decorative thing for the movie. I was only after the introduction on Technicolor and many different methods made up by them that movies finally finalized its way of creating colored film and advanced films into its next stage of its evolution. With this advancement we can see now that films have changed many time until they reached the stage at where they are now. These developments would lead to new developments such as 3D films and much crisper and realistic movies that we now