The Miracle of Sound
The Miracle of Sound | |
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Directed by | Douglas Shearer |
Starring | Douglas Shearer Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy Greer Garson W.S. Van Dyke |
Narrated by | |
Cinematography | Lester White |
Edited by | |
Music by | Daniele Amfitheatrof |
Distributed by | MGM |
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Running time | 11 minutes |
Country | United States |
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound is a 1940 short documentary film, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer and narrated by , which goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created. The film, which was produced as part of the studio's Romance of Celluloid series, is available as a bonus on the Warner DVD of The Shop Around the Corner.
Plot[]
The film starts with a brief introduction to the work of Thomas A. Edison and a clip from William K.L. Dickson's The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (c. 1894). Douglas Shearer then presents a behind the scenes look at the filming of W.S. Van Dyke's Bitter Sweet (1940) featuring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy to explain how the sound is recorded. A scene from King Vidor's Comrade X (1940) featuring Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr is used to demonstrate the final result. The film concludes with a montage from trailers for coming MGM pictures and a Technicolor screen test of Greer Garson for Mervyn LeRoy's Blossoms in the Dust (1941).
Production[]
The film was shot on location at the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in Culver City, California.[1]
References[]
- ^ "Filming locations for The Miracle of Sound". IMDB. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
External links[]
- 1940 films
- American films
- English-language films
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short films
- Documentary films about Hollywood
- American black-and-white films
- American short documentary films
- 1940s short documentary films
- Arts documentary film stubs