MUSIC 2F03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Epic Film, Cinemascope, Motion Picture Production Code

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Music
• Course: MUSIC 2F03
• Professor: Simon Wood

Document Summary

Music follows mcpherson"s internal state as he searches the apartment. Note how the music is connected to the portrait. Challenge of new media television (direct competitive from film) Battle with television accelerates the move to all colour. Hollywood begins to experiment with various systems to create a wide- screen image. Multiple systems in competition (just like sound) such as cinerama, Also saw the development of the irst multi0channel sound systems for theatres. Make the ilm bigger, wide screen, something can not have seen from tv. Bible has the most inluence power in western culture, so put the story into the ilm. Epic ilm: quo vadis, the robe, julius ceasar, lawrence of arabia, Films of the 1940s push the code, ilms of the 1950s begin to break it all together.