EDWIN EVANS : ‘ Music and the Cinema'
TONIGHT'S talk will break fresh ground in the consideration of the future of the films. Mr. Edwin Evans , the music critic, has from the first been keenly interested in the cinema, particularly with regard to the question of musical accompaniment-a question which, with tho advent of synchronisation and sound pictures, has become one of pressing importance. Those who saw Berlin will remember that, though the film itself was ' silent,' the music for it was specially composed and distributed with the film. The big American companies are now developing the same idea, with the added advantage that they can employ first-rato orchestras at Hollywood and record their music on the film. The result will obviously be a marked improvement in the general standard of orchestral accompaniment even to silent films, and Mr. Evans will look at tho future particularly in this aspect.