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Sound of Cinema: You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet

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Episode 5: Matthew Sweet

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Matthew Sweet explores silence in film and the effect on sound of digital technology.

Matthew Sweet explores silence in film and asks what sounds have been lost because of cinema's increasing reliance on digital technology.

What happens when cinema shuts up? Matthew Sweet explores those moments when the talkie stops talking and cuts the music dead: the final minutes of William Wyler's Roman Holiday; the heist in Rififi; Oliver Hardy's long despairing look into the camera lens. He also listens hard to those cinematic sounds being silenced by digital technology from the fizz of a reel-change to the wear and tear on a film's soundtrack and asks what we have lost now that cinema is no longer a physical, photochemical medium.

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