Film Music

Since the first silent films there was always some musical dub, e.g. a pianist played the piano for the actions in the movie.
1923 has brought the change when the first fully synchronised sound-movie was introduced to the public.
At the early development phase it was uneasy to record sound and the film together, due to the noise of the sound-recording equipment, so the actors and the technical tools were separated, as a result it became hard to move the camera...
An other problem that has arised with sound movies was that the voice of silent actors was not always as pleasant as their play on the screen, so they had to apply singers who could sing the songs in the posrproduction phase, known "looping". Thus the career of many well-established silent movie stars came to an end.
The first films with sounds and sound effects in the 1930 have created an uproar among the audience and art lovers who claimed that silent movie had a lot to deliver in aesthtic values and this has been destroyed by the added sounds.

Since the first changes and challanges turned up in film industry, sound techniques and siystems have developped well together with the scientific and technical discoveries and by today we call engineering of sound that goes to the silent film track recorded. Thus the question arises again, whether silence is worth more with artistic measures or a perfectly edited, designed, recorded and engineered sound to the film?
At least this question should remain open, but what we should see and know is that art and artistic features of a film does not anymore lie behind the sound/music of the film, but how it is made and what is added to the moving picture!