• Sound films emphasized on black history and benefited different genres more so than silents did.
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Creative impact of sound
• Sound films emphasized on black history and benefited different genres more so than silents did. Most obviously, the musical film was born
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The color film
• In 1935, Rouben Mamoulian derected Vaanity Fair, the first color movie in the world.
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Ww2 and its aftermath
• The desire for wartime propaganda created a renaissance in the film industry in Britain, with realistic war dramas like 49th Parallel (1941), Went the Day Well? (1942), The Way Ahead (1944)
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The sound era
• During late 1927, Warners released The Jazz Singer, which was mostly silent but contained what is generally regarded as the first synchronized dialogue (and singing) in a feature film
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History of film
•1927-1945 •The development era
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At this time ,films got sound and color. Film became mature as a kind of art. People used the new technology to make films more perfectly.
• The onset of US involvement in World War II also brought a proliferation of films as both patriotism and propaganda.
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• The strictures of wartime also brought an interest in more fantastical subjects. These included Britain's Gainsborough melodramas (including The Man in Grey and The Wicked Lady)
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These are posters of the Jazz singer.
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• The change was remarkably swift. By the end of 1929, Hollywood was almost all-talkie, with several competing sound systems
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• the first classic-style Hollywood musical was The Broadway Melody (1929).
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• At this time, American gangster films like Little Caesar and Wellman's The Public Enemy (both 1931)