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Nov. 15th, 2012 09:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI made a quick drive to Walgreens so I could treat brain-fry with diet soda. I saw a friend in a U-haul in the parking lot!
I feel the fourth part of my paper, about Moderne theatres and the culture of the 30s is weak, but I'm feeling burned out by reading theory and am going to dig into some copies of Moving Picture World instead for a while to find some good primary source material to include.
Right now, I'm reading a 1907 article about how people who can't think of new subjects for the "cinematograph" are clearly lacking imagination. As inspiration, the writer offers a comic called "The Burnt Cake Episode", about King Alfred "coming in for retribution for having allowed cakes to burn during his thought wanderings about the offensive Danes." It's part of a "Screamingly funny" series of sketches called "Humors of History".
Damn Danes. They ruin everything.
But you know, at the same time that I'm laughing about King Alfred and his cake-retribution, some of what I'm reading here is awe-inspiring. It's thought-provoking to read of the improvements being made to the phonograph and the moving picture machine and of how there are efforts being made at synchronizing the two of them. That soon it will be possible to "watch Caruso or some other great singer, step on the stage and listen to him as he pours forth his rich tones... when all the while the musician himself is far away in New York or Paris." It's really something to read that and consider that *no one had ever had that experience before*. It really makes me think.
I feel the fourth part of my paper, about Moderne theatres and the culture of the 30s is weak, but I'm feeling burned out by reading theory and am going to dig into some copies of Moving Picture World instead for a while to find some good primary source material to include.
Right now, I'm reading a 1907 article about how people who can't think of new subjects for the "cinematograph" are clearly lacking imagination. As inspiration, the writer offers a comic called "The Burnt Cake Episode", about King Alfred "coming in for retribution for having allowed cakes to burn during his thought wanderings about the offensive Danes." It's part of a "Screamingly funny" series of sketches called "Humors of History".
Damn Danes. They ruin everything.
But you know, at the same time that I'm laughing about King Alfred and his cake-retribution, some of what I'm reading here is awe-inspiring. It's thought-provoking to read of the improvements being made to the phonograph and the moving picture machine and of how there are efforts being made at synchronizing the two of them. That soon it will be possible to "watch Caruso or some other great singer, step on the stage and listen to him as he pours forth his rich tones... when all the while the musician himself is far away in New York or Paris." It's really something to read that and consider that *no one had ever had that experience before*. It really makes me think.
