The Sounds of the Silents in Britain

SUMARIO. // Introduction: The Sounds of the Silents in Britain ; Julie Brown and Annette Davison // Speaking to Pictures / 1. Professional Lecturing in Early British Film Shows ; Joe Kember / 2. Now, where were we? Ideal and Actual Early Cinema Lecturing Practices in Britain, Germany and the US ; Judith Buchanan / 3. Eric Williams: Speaking to Pictures ; Stephen Bottomore / 4. Sounding Scottish: Sound Practices and Silent Cinema in Scotland ; Trevor Griffiths // Accompanying pictures / 5. Suitable music: Accompaniment Practice in Early London Screen Exhibition from R. W. Paul to the Picture Palaces ; Ian Christie / 6. The Art of Not Playing to Pictures in British Cinemas, 1906-1914 ; Jon Burrows / 7. The efforts of the wretched pianist: Learning to Play to the Pictures in Britain, 1911-1913 ; Andrew Higson / 8. The Reception of British Exhibition Practices in The Moving Picture World, 1907-1914 ; James Buhler // Performance in cinemas / 9. Selsior Dancing Films, 1912-1917 ; Stephen Bottomore / 10. Song Performance in the Early Sound Shorts of British Pathe ; Derek B. Scott / 11. Atmospheric Film Prologues and the British Film Trade Papers, 1919-1926 ; Julie Brown, Royal Holloway / 12. Animating the Audience: Singalong Films in Britain in the 1920s ; Malcolm Cook // Musicians, Companies and Institutions / 13. Workers' Rights and Performing Rights: Cinema Music and Musicians Prior to Synchronized Sound ; Annette Davison / 14. Sound at the Film Society ; John Riley / 15. Edmund Meisel's visual sound in The Crimson Circle (1929): The Case of the Vanishing Part-Talkie ; Fiona Ford // Bibliography // Index