S4E05.5 - Love Me Tonight [1932] and Rhythm in Early Sound Film with Lea Jacobs

University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Emerita Lea Jacobs joins us for a discussion of film rhythm in the early sound era. We discuss the various ways films can deal with on-set singing and musical numbers, the incredibly complex and constrictive ways in with early sound films were constrained when it came to everything from blocking and camera placement to editing, Mamoulian and Lubitsch’s respective uses of music as rhythmic devices, and the difficulties that audio revisionism engenders.

Throughout this episode, we’ll be referencing various videos that are available at the bottom of these shownotes.

Edited by Gloria Mercer

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NEXT WEEK:

Tanya Goldman joins us to discuss TROUBLE IN PARADISE as well as JEWEL ROBBERY. For details as to where to find these films, check out our resources page.

WORKS CITED:

Film Rhythm After Sound by Lea Jacobs

BEHIND-THE-SCENES

REFERENCE CLIPS

Courtesy of Lea Jacobs

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