I think you are the most underrated channel on KZread. Amazing work, as always.

@FilmmakerIQ

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks Batman. Now go save Gotham!

@donandremikhaelibarra6421

3 жыл бұрын

atmos atmos atmos

@FilmmakerIQ

3 жыл бұрын

You get your checks directly mailed to you by Dolby?

You should do a lesson on the restoration of films. Films that have been saved, lost, found and the processes that have been used to preserve films.

@mrman4645

8 жыл бұрын

Good idea

@ClashBerry

8 жыл бұрын

Definitely!

@MarkShannonroad_videos

6 жыл бұрын

110% agreed.

@robfriedrich2822

4 жыл бұрын

I know videos about restoration of Cinerama movies. They made them looking better than initial by fixing some problems of bringing all 3 films together.

@robfriedrich2822

4 жыл бұрын

The Dixon film was the only one done live. The horn doesn't look good, so when using acoustic stylus sound, they did it with the playback process. Prerecorded music and added the picture. It's not accident, that the availability of microphones, amplifiers and loudspeakers came together with developing film sound. One interesting thing, with cinema speakers and mixing consoles in film studios, they had all technical stuff for a PA system since 1930, but before the 1960's they hadn't use this.

This channel is like jacking into the Matrix training programs. Watching two of them will give you a headache, and I mean that in a good way. The amount of information delivered in such a concise manner is nothing short of mind blowing. It's content creators like this that make KZread invaluable. :)

@X2FileWrightonite

6 жыл бұрын

Could NOT have said that better myself. Totally agree.

I gave it a like before the video even loaded because what ever you talk about is interesting. , so basically I already know I'm in for a treat. Thanks

Your videos on insight to filmhistory, are amazing. I think I've said that before, but such an amazing yet underrated channel, deserves to hear it again. Good job, John, you're one of the few KZreadrs who I can't wait for when they will upload their next masterpiece. So keep up the good work

@mychalsimmons4177

6 жыл бұрын

MDMart you are so right His history lessons are phenomenal

@margueritebuchanan4983

7 ай бұрын

❤enjoyed your content used on my final project very knowledgeable

Great video! I studied film/TV production in the ‘80s with an emphasis on post-production audio sweetening. I got to do the sound for everyone’s projects because so few people in film school cared much about the audio. Our audio sweetening studio was set up with three synced tape systems - an eight-track 1/2" machine, a two-track 1/4" machine, and a two-track digital tape machine. While we could theoretically mix for multichannel sound, the only way to export the sound was to a stereo S-VHS machine, so everyone’s projects ended up being stereo at best. All this work in the analog field ended up making me a dinosaur as soon as I had graduated. I didn’t know anything about digital recording or editing tools. Likewise, I got my Masters degree in photography, learning film processing and printing techniques in the early ‘90s, only a decade or so before film became essentially obsolete. There’s nothing like being the guy who learns the skill of making buggy whips right before the automobile is introduced. So, three decades later I’m a classical musician working for an opera company. I have a killer sound system set up in my house, though! I’m still more interested in the audio of a film than the video portion…

John, still one of your best episodes, I show this to my friends often. The scene regarding the Jazz Singer, really illustrates how amazing the sound transition was... Imagine being in the audience and the film switches to recorded dialog and then back to title cards... At that moment anyone watching would have realized that "silent film" was dead... There's only a few times in history where such technological realizations were so abrupt. In any case your work is always of the highest quality Mr. Hess and glad you continue to contribute.

@FilmmakerIQ

8 жыл бұрын

+David Simmons You know what - I never thought of it that way. The fact that it was both talkie and silent must have been really jarring - which explains why Jazz Singer is always listed as the first talkie even though it wasn't... it was the first public demonstration in a very graphic form that silent film was indeed dead ;)

@OuterGalaxyLounge

7 жыл бұрын

Not only all of this, but the off-the-cuff effect of Jolson's seemingly improvised joshing around with his "mother" lends that "voyeuristic" effect that John mentions, and this individual personality coming out in an intimate and humorous way made an actor more human and not some idealized frozen icon graven in light, as in silents. NIce presentation, as usual, John, btw.

ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL DOCUMENTARY!!!! I have long been interested in the technological elements of sound recording -- the transition from acoustical recording to electrical recording, Vitaphone, sound-on-film, etc -- but I still learned much in this video. The sound clips from the early days are priceless. This is possibly the best documentary on "the coming of sound" that I have seen. Thanks for creating it and posting it.

@FilmmakerIQ

9 жыл бұрын

Bill Chambers Thank you for the kind words - comments like that really do mean a lot to us :)

@utubehound69

8 жыл бұрын

+Filmmaker IQ Could you cover or have you covered the faster frame rates used today as well as the Audio High Sample Rates is it not over kill? Great series Thanks for sharing it.

@FilmmakerIQ

8 жыл бұрын

Check out History of Frame Rate: kzread.info/dash/bejne/n56NzKh-oJy_qJM.html I talk a little about High Sampling Rate in kzread.info/dash/bejne/hW2XspOQeK-WitI.html I like 96KHz personally (to me anything higher is overkill), there's a lively debate in the comment section regarding that.

Star Wars did "kind of ok" at the box office. Yeah I think so too.

Four years after this video was released we have object based audio like Dolby Atmos which render "objects" "on the fly" during playback to use up to 64 discreet channels to place these sound "objects" in specific places in a room regardless of speaker location or room size.

Brilliant. I haven't seen a video of yours in a while. I was so excited when I saw this pop up in my subscription feed. Time to put on popcorn and soak this in:)

Filmmaker IQ Thanks for making these. Learning so much from it. The way the videos are layed out and the way you explain the topics is just great.

Can I just say, getting to listen to your courses is the reason why I wash dishes in my household. 😂

I find your videos utterly amazing, you speak with such enthusiasm, knowledge and love for cinema and its history it's just infectious to watch. It's always just brilliant.

@29:51... my wife is obsessed with that sound. Just loves it.

I'm incredibly happy to find this channel. I've been working in cg for 10 years now, and have learned a lot from your video's! Keep up the good work!

The Quality of your content is just incredible.

Nice, I was waiting for this particular video for a while. Great job

wow! excellent as ever! Your videos always throws light on every aspect of the topic you chose. Thanks!

Cinerama had three surround speakers, left, right, and center, switched manually, literally by a person sitting at the audio console. Perspecta didn't switch the mono track to one of the three screen speakers at a time. It dynamically and smoothly varied the volume of each speaker individually, so the sound could go to one only, any two, or all three in varying amounts with split-second timing. For example, a full orchestra playing would come from all three screen speakers, and if a cymbal crashed on the right, the right speaker would get louder and fade back just for the duration of the crash. Most of the time, the effect was indistinguishable from sound recorded and played with three channels because, like Dolby, it took into consideration psycho-acoustic listener considerations (I've studied Perspecta articles and patents and attended a theater screening of a Perspecta feature).

Top quality from John as always. Thank you for your hard work, it was really educational.

The sound of the chalk on the board is very pleasing

@Brandooon95

7 жыл бұрын

shaggy!

@Tmanaz480

6 жыл бұрын

What is a chalk board??

Once again amazing video! Good job to the Filmmaker IQ crew.

All this time, I have never seen the Jazz Singer and never knew that only a couple parts of the movie have talking. The rest of this video is fascinating!

I discovered you channel a few days ago with "The history "The history and science of Color film" and now this - loving your videos a lot. So informative and interesting, and very well researched and presented. Thanks!

Working my way through your back catalog. This was really well done. I knew some high level information but you really filled in all the details. Loving watching your presentation style.

I am always excited getting a new vivid course like this on film history ((-:

This was awesome , I'm glad I subed to this channel.

@chasarr

10 жыл бұрын

I also did that!

Great video! One thing that I found particularly interesting was that larger theaters would have an orchestra in the pit playing the music while the movie was projected above. A recent phenomenon is for symphony orchestras in larger cities to play the scores for movies, such as Star Wars or E.T. , live, while the movie is projected on a screen above. So it turns out that this is not new at all, but a revival of an old tradition!

Great show John, I'm always amazed by the information you are able to provide. I know these shows aren't easy to produce, but don't wait so long next time to put out your next piece;-)

Such passion John, that ending really was a statement from you to your love of cinema! Another great video, with amazing excerpts! Thank you so much! ;)

The information itself is awesome but I especially love the commentary at the end. Your passion is so real!

I'm really enjoying learning from these! Thank you!

Great channel!!! :) You put information in a way it is impossible to stop watching! :D Thanks, awesome job! :)

Wow! How inspiring! This is so helpful as always! THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU GUYS DO!

Boy I just discovered your channel. Am I going to bingewatch everything ? YES SIR !

You always inspire me, John. I am busy making something great. Thanks.

Awesome as always!!!

I really enjoyed this John..You are brilliant!!! Love your energy!

Amazing video as always Thank you

Taking on the fact that I love to edit videos, including greenscreen, recording video, and special effects, this channel is AMAZING.

I love your history videos. It’s so soothing to watching and learn. Well presented and enjoyable. Thank you

Excellent channel and format.

That was pretty awesome. Appreciate your passion as well! Thanks for lesson.

Thank you, great information learning great things from your channel. Keep it up

Fantastic video, thank you for this!

Great Video! It really came in handy when I had to prepare for an exam

T his is a great, informative video! Thanks for explaining the history of sound in film in an easy-to-understand way.

Great, excellent as always. thank you

Excellent Essay! Thank You!

I honestly learnt more from this video than almost a whole term of learning about sound for film at film school!

Thank you John! That was fascinating!

My god, what a great video! Thank you so much!

Great work !!! As always...

Wow, the colours of fantasia are amazing. Great vid as always!

B-R-A-V-O!!! Great job!!! Thanks for the journey :)

Very good documentary - although when talking about the 1976 version of A STAR IS BORN, you showed a poster for the Judy Garland version from 1954.

A great lesso. You are amazing at keepung me focussed and keeping the spark there

As always : really good episode :)

Brilliant explanations, still stunned by the magic of the history of the industry.

I love your videos, I have been using them in music class for my middle school students very well put together.

Dude, awesome channel! Subscribed!

Thank you for this great, intresting and entertaining video!

Another great episode. What about an episode talking about cinema's resolution? "from 35mm to 8k"

@hjeriz

10 жыл бұрын

i would love that.

@zusurs

10 жыл бұрын

Emm, actually ordinary 35mm film from 1960s have digital resolution equivalent of about 4k (depending on film stock used and equipment), and 70mm IMAX is about 9.3k. This is the main reason why digital cinema novadays still lags far behind film in terms of actual sharpness. I'd rather make title something like "From 8mm to IMAX", and only mention digital projection (2k, 4k, and future 8k) in the end.

@ericpa06

10 жыл бұрын

Artūrs Savickis I don't know about the comparison between 35mm resolution from 4K, but it's sound plausible. But most movies today are shooted in digital cameras (As RED, for example), there's a documentary of Keanu Reeves talking just about that, called "Side by Side", and saying pretty much that tradicional cinema will ended up dying, as digital cameras starts to get each time more and more available and cheap About "sharpeness", I have to disagree, digital cameras shooted PIXEL by PIXEL, there is no "film grain", for example in digital cinema. If you look many movies shot on film, and that later on were converted to Blu-Ray, you'll notice that many of them, have a very grainy image, that's not happen on digital cinema.

@DirectorHMAN

7 жыл бұрын

Cinema standard has been 2k for the past 100 years

Long wait, well worth it !

It was a wonderful episode!!! Like,like, like!!!

Great stuff, Thanks for the knowledge

This was well done. Thanks for the info!

Thanks John Another very informative episode.

a very well researched documentary. thanks.

Damn John, this stuff is fantastic. You're doing phenomenal work. It's almost criminal that this has so relatively few fews. I guess people generally don't watch KZread video longer than about 10 minutes. It's a shame, they're missing out on some brilliant content. Cheers!

This is a Master Class! Thanks a lot!!

It took me eight years to find "Filmmaker IQ", but these are so well done and easy to understand.

Immensely informative and entertaining, thank you!

Jesus, I'm going through your videos and you have gone through an entire college course. BRAVO! I am not sure if people like you understand how much you are having an impact on the popularisation and accessibility to knowledge. When Aronofsky said that the Internet is more than enough for you to learn about filmmaking and then put it into practice, I understand what he had meant. A low bow from everyone for your work!

Fantastic video. Thank you.

Wonderfully done

Outstanding! This might be the best explanationof what makes movies great entertainment.

I was wondering what the next videowas going to be. Another great lesson in film. I love this kind of history

Excellent presentation!

Great as always..

Well-Done & Quite Enlightening

Thank you for helping with my exam revision. You saved me a lot of time! I have now subscribed! :D

There was also Eugene Augustin Lauste who "exhibited a sound film in the United States, possibly the first-ever American showing of a movie using sound-on-film technology" in 1911. From Wikipedia.

John, I really enjoy these history lessons. I think most of my peers in Hollywood have no clue of what this history is. Thank you so much. Looking forward to more of your work.

This video is so amazing!

Amazing, thanks for your service to the humanity!

glad to have seen this video considering that nearly all of us take sound in films for granted because nowadays we focus on the fancy CGIs

Great shit yo! Keep it coming

Thanks for this!!!!

John another awesome job as usual! One of the new problems with the advent of sound was that it gave certain contentious elements in society a voice that could be widely heard. This is an excerpt from a paper I wrote in grad school concerning the depiction of homosexuality in pre-code movies of the 30s. Will Hays himself suggested that the development of sound necessitated the development of the code, "The problem with the development of motion pictures with a sound track according to censors and the American public was that the pansy now had a voice. That through the use of certain tones and vocal inflections the film makers and the movie going public understood that these particular speech patterns implied homosexuality with the result that the, “new sound technology posed an even greater threat to the status quo than silent pictures,” and the Code was instituted to counter that threat. In a press release dated April 1, 1930 from the MPPDA announcing the Motion Picture Production Code, the advent in sound in motion pictures was the very first item on the agenda. “Sound, which revolutionized the art of the screen, has brought about the formation of a new Code.”

@FilmmakerIQ

10 жыл бұрын

GDF2 Very fascinating!! just to piggy back on the idea that sound brought social implications came in the European market. It was fine to show American films with translated titles, but governments were very staunch against "talkies" that didn't speak in the native tongue. This led to Paramount creating a studio in Epinay where they would remake the same script using the same sets with different actors. Then a few years later, they invented dubbing and all that was forgotten about. Just something that didn't make it into this cut of the script.Really fascinating to think about - thank you!

@musaran2

5 жыл бұрын

Ironically nowadays dubbing is a given, while hard-coded texts (signs, title in art form etc) are a a pain to edit and often left as-is.

I think this is the greatest KZread channel. Such fantastic work, you know whats up! U still making these wonderful videos?

great series!!

I must say that as a film sound educator, this really hit all of the right points and was incredibly informative and concise. However, I'm hugely disappointed that you didn't mention Dolby Atmos, which has now been around for a couple of years and is really the pinnacle of theatrical sound at 64 channels. It should have at least been given an honorable mention.

The best educational channel I know now

The best history lesson ever. Thanks

great lesson on sound in film!

I don't know what it is about John Hess, but I like his presentation. Anyone else would be boring to me. I sat through lectures like this in school that were painful but John keeps it interesting for me.

Great informative video, I teach video production and showed this to my classes for our intro to sound unit!

Ur channel deserves more subs The organisation is wonderful