The Impact of The Jazz Singer on the Conversion to Sound

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Movie and Reading Analysis
Movie: Singin' in the Rain
Reading: Jonathan Tankel's The Impact of The Jazz Singer on the Conversion to Sound
Central ideas
Singin' in the Rain is an American musical romantic comedy film released in 1952. It stars Donald O'Connor and Debbie Raynold as Cosmo Brown and Kathy Selden, respectively, while Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen are the film directors. The film explores the transition between the silent film era talkies. Kelly, the film director, used memorable musical and comedy sequences to highlight the dilemma experienced in transitioning to sound in the film industry. In achieving his goal, Kelly used extended techniques of involving fantasy dances in the fil. These would be the computer modified effects ("Singin' In The Rain").
The reading, The Impact of Jazz Singer also explores the transition to sound from the silent film era. The Jazz Singer is the first complete film produced that synchronized dialogue and images, marking the sound film era (Tankel, 24). The reading explores close details of the production process and the effects of the sound in the film.
The two materials are related in every way. Both explore the transition from the silent era film. The film, Singin' in the Rain, looks closely into the dilemmas of transitioning into a new phase in the film industry while the reading highlights a film's production in the sound era. This explains the relationship between reading and the film.
The Film's Focus On Social And Historical Issues
Singin' in the Rain is a fascinating movie that explores specific historical and social issues. The first historical issue concerns the developments and evolutions in the film industry. Through the film, audiences can deduce cinematic history. The movie begins in a silent concert performance. When Kathy appears, she disowns the performs saying that dump (Cohan, 56). This expression symbolizes the need to transit into a more effective cinematic production where the characters engage in dialogue instead of the audience reading body language for the meaning of expressions.
The film also alluded to the need to improve the technological application in cinematic production. The reason for the silent movie was the challenge of synchronizing sound and motion images. However, there was a need to improve this and ensure that audience does not only rely on their interpretation of body the character's body language and the subtitles in the fi...