Synch Holes and Patchwork in Early Feature-Film Scores

Eric Dienstfrey

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Abstract The aesthetics of early feature-film scores were shaped by narrational problems introduced by multi-reel features and their longer durations. Using The Patchwork Girl of Oz, I show how stylistic devices like silences and musical punctuation were used to address the coherence and pacing of multi-reel storytelling.

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2004Silent Film Sound 1987The Presentation of Silent Films, or, Music as Anaesthesia 1979The Early Cinema of Edwin Porter

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