Sounding Images in Silent Film: Visual Acoustics in Murnau's Sunrise

Abstract

The cinematic appeal to the auditory imagination is a new possibility of poetic expression, which no serious photoplaywright can afford to neglect. High-brow critics and apologists for the spoken drama have been known to sneer at the silent drama. Let the cinema composer [i.e., director] attune their ears to the sounding beauties of that silence. Let him create of this nothingness a new form of expression, until stillness becomes eloquent and the unheard melodies sweet. Victor Oscar Freeburg, The Art of Photoplay Making (1918)

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