#phonoscene

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Course à la saucisse (1907) Alice Guy

The Race for the Sausage (French: Course à la saucisse )  is a 1907 film by Alice Guy. A comedy film with a chase, already a classic feature of the early cinema.  Dotted with accidents caused by the procession of pursuers, in a partly natural setting, the film also depicts everyday life at the time. And the spectacular effect of the stunts and damage has lost none of its effectiveness (a fall among the pigs: 1:46, a pram run over by a train: 4:21...).

Synopsis. (0:15) A poodle steals a long sausage from a grocery counter. Alarmed by this precious loss, the owners set off in pursuit of the delinquent animal. (0:21) Running through the city streets, the dog creates a procession of unlikely pursuers who end up fighting over a piece of the precious sausage thanks to the unexpected intervention of a hunter (3:47), who fires a shotgun and splits the sausage in two. The poodle, meanwhile, will have already consumed his booty without further ado (4:21).

Check out the film The Policemen's Little Run (1907) by Ferdinand Zecca

Alice Guy (b. 1873, Saint-Mandé, France; d. 1968, Wayne, New Jersey, USA) was a pioneering filmmaker, the world's first director and producer. She began working as a secretary for the Gaumont company and became a key figure, shooting numerous short films, reports, short silent scenes and sound phonoscenes. Lacking collaborators, she devoted herself personally to training directors, editors and set designers. In 1907, Alice Guy resigned from Gaumont, married Herbert Blaché, employed by the same company, and both moved to the United States. There, Alice Guy-Blaché founded her own production company, Solax, the first film company run by a woman. However, Solax failed to survive the transition from shorts to feature films.

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Russian Circles

Live performance of the post-rock / post-metal band RUSSIAN CIRCLES (Chicago - USA) at Krakatoa, Bordeaux (33), 14th of march 2017 for their 2017 Europe tour.

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The Chronophone (1910)

Since 1900, Léon Gaumont had been interesting in the talkies. For example, thanks to his collaboration with Georges Demenÿ, he started the fabrication of a flexible mechanism which connect the wax cylinder phonograph and the cinematograph. This system was close to the Kinetophone of Thomas Edison (1877), we could heared sounds by means of headphones. The first patent in 1901 presented a connected system between an engine and a projector, the sounds spread through the screen thanks to speakers. At this time, the system wasn’t produced for commercial gain.

Sound recording wasn’t perfect yet but Alice Guy started to shoot her phonoscenes in 1902 anyway, which made her famous in the cinematographic world. This process needed two recordings, one for the sound and the other for the image. She was a pioneer because of her work with sound but also because she was the first female director and she made the first feminist movie with Résultats du féminisme in 1906, where the male and female roles are reversed. A new « glass case » was apparently constructed, exclusively for the shots with sound. 

The same year, the recording became electric thanks to the use of a microphone and a stylus burner in steel. The sound amplification was made by the Elgéphone, another invention of the Gaumont laboratory, used with phonographic records for theatre, concerts or music-halls, and allowed to substitute a real orchestra. In the studio, the camera was in the both and the microphone above the actors, the electric cable transported the sound into the both. It was the movement of the recording which triggered the cinematograph.

In 1910, the Chronophone was born and presented at the Académie des Sciences of Paris, Gaumont shown the sound portrait of the professor d’Arsonval. The system was a new alliance between the phonograph and cinematograph, where the microphone was independent from the recording machine.  The first version of the equipment was sold to showman for regular performances, but the factory of the company wasn’t ready for mass production and exportation. This was also due to a quality problem during the reproduction. The hole factory had to transform itself for the fabrication of the Chronophone and the specific film for phonoscenes.

The very next year, nine talkies were presented at the Société Française de Photographie. The Chornophone needed a phonograph reproducer to be really close to the screen then, although the projector was far away. So, the electricity had to synchronize both machines, both engines needed to rotate at the same time.  To make the process easier, the mechanical part was also connected to the same machine, assuring the best synchronisation.  The hardest part next was to record the sound and the images in the same film.

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Alice Guy Shots A Phonoscene (1907) d. Unknown 

(short film 2m 12s)

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PHONOSCENE #28 // OATHBREAKER // RHEIA

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PHONOSCENE #26 // TOUNDRA // KITSUNE & CIELO NEGRO

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Alice Guy tourne une phonoscene 1904-1905 Buttes Chaumont

Véritable making of avant la lettre, ce film montre le tournage d'un des films sonores d'Alice Guy au début du XXe siècle.

La caméra placée derrière les techniciens permet de voir les différentes phases du tournage : un assistant donne les dernières directives d'emplacement aux acteurs, les phonographe sont réglés une dernière fois et on commence l'enregistrement. Un léger panoramique horizontal vers la droite permet de découvrir le système d'éclairage qui ressemble à une batterie d'énormes quinquets dont s'échappe parfois une inquiétante fumée.

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The Rodeo Idiot Engine

Live performance of the chaotic hardcore band THE RODEO IDIOT ENGINE (Bayonne - FR) at IBOAT, Bordeaux (33), 23rd of november 2016. Thanks to Chuck Lizewski for some footages in this video. http://chuckersatz.tumblr.com/

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MEÜTE

Live experience of the blackened screamo band MEÜTE (Bordeaux - FRANCE) at l'Antirouille / Rock&Chanson (33), 29th of April 2016, with ALONE TOGETHER, taken from the first eponym EP of the band, that'll be released by the start of June 2016.

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SOLITONE

Second live experience of the freshly formed screamo band SOLITONE (Bordeaux - FRANCE) at l'Antirouille / Rock&Chanson (33), 29th of April 2016.

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NICOLAS QUIRIN

Live performance of folk musician / songwriter NICOLAS QUIRIN (Nancy - FRANCE) at Théâtre de Laval, Laval (53), 17th of February 2015.

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MOHAWK

Live performance of the folk/rock/punk band MOHAWK (Brest - FRANCE) as a fullband at Théâtre de Laval, Laval (53), 17th of February 2015.

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Live performance of industrial doom / drone, one man band AUTHOR & PUNISHER (San Diego - CA - USA) at Iboat, Bordeaux (33), 20th of January 2015.

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Live performance of industrial doom / drone, one man band AUTHOR & PUNISHER (San Diego - CA - USA) at Iboat, Bordeaux (33), 20th of January 2015.

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APPOLLONIA - STRANGE BLOOMS

Directed by Phonoscene

Taken from "Dull Parade" (2014) Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/appollonia.band Bandcamp: http://appollonia.bandcamp.com Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/artist/appol... Deezer: http://www.deezer.com/artist/341348 Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/artist/0iQFq... Twitter: https://twitter.com/Appollonia_band Tumblr: http://appolloniaband.tumblr.com Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/appollonia