From Silents to Talking Pictures: The Competition to Bring Sound to Movies
Although music was a natural accompaniment to silent films, few early movie studios thought talking pictures had a chance. Discover how two rags-to-riches moguls—William Fox of Fox Film Corporation working with Auburn physicist Ted Case, and Sam Warner of Warner Brothers Studio collaborating with Western Electric—brought the world a new way to experience motion pictures, one that profoundly transformed popular culture.
Presenter: Jim Loperfido, film historian who has worked in the industry for over forty years.
Event is free but registration recommended.
This event is co-sponsored by the Case Research Lab and Cayuga Museum as part of the Finger Lakes Film Trail.
The Finger Lakes Film Trail, launched in spring 2018, is an inter-county collaboration of three important film sites in central New York: the George Eastman House and Dryden Theatre in Rochester, Wharton Studio Museum in Ithaca, and the Case Research Laboratory and Cayuga Museum of History and Art in Auburn.