Synchronising voices and shadows: music and the transition to sound cinema in Spain

• Autores: Julio C. Arce Bueno
• Localización: The Routledge Handbook to Spanish Film Music / Laura Miranda González (ed. lit.), 2024, ISBN 9781003174974, págs. 13-24
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The 1920s were a period of major transformations for popular culture in general and for cinema in particular. In the history of cinema, this was the decade of change towards sound synchronisation systems. The use of recorded sound, both in the optical recording system on the celluloid itself and synchronisation with records, caused a production crisis in Spanish cinema, which would last until well into the 1930s. In this chapter, I analyse the latter years of the 1920s as a period of change in how films sounded. I analyse how mechanical music began to be applied and what changes took place in accompanying film with sound during this process of transition towards what we now know of as sound cinema.