Question

In the early twentieth century, film companies did not usually have specific scores written for each film because?

A. audiences preferred films without music.
B. the idea wasn't invented until 1935.
C. theaters didn't want the added expenses of renting the score and hiring the orchestra.
D. no composers wanted to write for film.

Answer 1

(B) The idea wasn't invented until 1935.

Step-by-step explanation:

The best answer would be (B), since prior to that year, all movies were silent ones. Silent movies are movies without any sound, which started since the late 19th century until they early 20th century.

Though by 1927 movies were already released with sounds, such as the musical The Jazz Singer, none were composed specifically for each movie.

WIth Max Steiner's film score for King Kong, the trend starts, however. King Kong was released in 1933, and after the release more movies had their own film scores. 1935 was also the year when Academy Awards started giving awards for Best Original Film Score.

Answer 2

B. the idea wasn't invented until 1935.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the early days of film history, movies were not followed by a sound that matched the images on parade on screen, but that does not mean that they were in favor of absolute silence. Although dreams of synchronizing movie scenes with their own sound recordings were remote, technological advances were still incipient, not allowing this yearning to be realized.

A great event took place on October 6, 1927 with the screening of Alan Crosland's "The Jazz Singer" in New York. The film was the first to have spoken and sung passages and to use an effective sound system known as Vitaphone, released a year earlier in 1926 by Warner Bros.

The following year came Bryan Foy's New York Lights, the first fully spoken film. The 1933 King-Kong film is another historic production made by American cinema. This is because it was the first film in which the three tracks were manipulated - dialogues, noise and music - independently, making it possible to mix them. This is where the soundtrack today originated.