SECRETS OF THE SILVER SCREEN
Current film production and viewing experiences are in a different league to those of a century ago. Stepping into your local cinema, you know that your experience is going to be almost identical to that of someone in the next town. Films are produced as a full package of visuals and sound, ready to be widely distributed upon release. They are presented on enormous screens, encapsulating the room and placing viewers in the centre of the action.
In the early 1900s the black-and-white masterpieces on cinema screens were totally silent and required an accompaniment of live musicians to add an extra element of drama. This was the silent era of film, and a notably successful one for Hollywood.
In a world long before technology allowed for computer-generated imagery (CGI), film directors of this time
