Films

Films When moving film first appeared in 1898 it captured the public imagination as quickly and surely as recorded sound had done. Film, however, was at first a silent medium; when shown in theaters, it was accompanied not by a soundtrack but, often, by a house pianist, sometimes an orchestra, or occasionally some simple sound effects produced in-house. From the outset, experiments had been conducted to marry it to recorded sound, but the major problem was always synchronization. It took two…