THTRFLM 2T03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10-11: Carl Denham, Max Steiner, Carl Stalling

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Theatre & Film Studies
• Course: THTRFLM 2T03
• Professor: Andrew Mitchell

Document Summary

Part 3: the sound era begins, 1928-1944. Chapter 10: the early years of sound, 1928-1933: the depression following the stock market crash of. 1929 had a major impact on the entertainment business. Live theater suffered the most; vaudeville, revues, and operetta were all dealt mortal blows as well as movie houses. The major exception to this trend is max steiner"s stunning musical score for king. Kong (1933) which heralds the emergence of the classical film score. Musicals: for model of musical entertainments, hollywood looked to broad way, where there were 2 basic types of musical shows, productions featuring a series of unrelated performances, such as the revue to vaudeville. Fox 2: dramatic works that inserted musical numbers into a dramatic plot, such as operetta and the nascent musical comedy, hollywood soon produced so many musical films that the public grew weary of them, the popularity of 42nd.