When it came too the new era of film making one of the major break throughs was the edition of sound in your cinematic experience. However, including sound in motion pictures was very expensive at the time because it was basically adding sound to a silent movie. Some times the audio was not clear enough so a lot of editing was needed in order to make it sound crisp. Motion picture companies had to buy sound booths, sound stages and they had to build theaters that were wired for sound. Many of their actors could not make the transition from silent movies to sound so some of them were let go. However, even with some of these minor finical set backs, there was still plenty of profit to be made with the edition of new talent to be brought in the movie business. These would include voice actors and script writers. For the voice actors, casting directors had to find the perfect balance of someone with acting talent as well as a powerful voice in order to bring new life into the characters. For the script writers, it allowed for further plots to be made and ultimately made the stories in a movie much easier to follow as opposed to the silent movie where you had to assume what was occurring in the movie based on the actors actions and the occasional dialogue clip. With the edition to sound it also allowed the movie to go un interrupted and play smoothly through out instead of having to stop the movie so that a dialogue screen can inform you on whats going on. In the case of the movie "It Happened One Night," sound was used. Personally because of this, the movie was given many oscars due to its story and the actors within the film. On one particular article it states that this movie was pretty much low budget because of the fact that Columbia was not as prosperous as they are currently. Because of this fact most people believed that this movie was the underdog at the oscars but it ended up taking the prizes for best actor, actress, director and script. http://www.culturemagazine.ca/cinema/the_oscars_project_it_happened_one_night_1934.html Personally I think the movie was okay. I can not give my opinion of this movie without being biast because I am not really a fan of romantic comedies, however, for the time period this movie took place in I believe it was put together very well. At times the sound quality did sound a bit scratchy, however that was due to the lack of modern technology we have today. To be honest if this same movie came out today I dont think it would have won an Oscar however, for back in its time period it was basically revolutionary. It coined many famous scenes you see today like when Ellie stops the car by raising up her skirt, that same scene is used in the movie "Sex In The City 2." http://www.culturemagazine.ca/cinema/the_oscars_project_it_happened_one_night_1934.html Overall I think the movie was okay however, like I mentioned before, romantic comedy isn't my preference in movies.

There are many different types of new ideas that were created and used in the movie "Gold Rush." For instance before these particular type of movies, short films were usually shot with one view for a specific period of time. Directors would never cut in between scenes or use close ups for a more personal point of view. Also when it came to the movie itself the camera would usually stay with one set of characters on the same screen and that's how the story progressed. However, due to recent developments in the cinematic industry, directors realized that they can cut in between characters to make sort of a story within a story and make the general plot more interesting. The movie "Gold Rush," was one of the first films to perfect this new type of direction. In an article from http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2000/nov/27/artsfeatures1, it states how Charlie Chaplin, (the main star in the movie Gold Rush,)composed most of the music in his movies. Within the article it states "Chaplin's scores have a foot-tapping catchiness; they get stuck in your head and you find yourself whistling the tunes," which I actually found to be true. Most of the music from this movie had a catchy tune which sort of reminded me of old bugs bunny cartoons. Also the music that he composed went hand in hand with the emotions and what was actually happening within the plot of the movie. Music was very important to express pain, laughter, sadness, happiness, etc. because of the fact that back in those days there was no sound to the movies. Therefore I felt that Charlie Chaplin really took advantage of the music and made his movies something to be remembered by not only the quality of his productions but also the quality of his scores. Personally I really enjoyed this movie a lot. Restating my past words in a different context, it seemed to me that this movie was somewhat of a live action bugs bunny cartoon in the sense that Charlie's character is always getting into various situations that are humorous but could be potentially life threatening. An example would be the scene when he and his friend who was looking for his gold mountain are in the cabin dangling over a cliff because an avalanche unknowingly moved them to that location and they are trying to figure out why the cabin is rocking back and forth. Also I was very surprised at how through the music you can catch emotions of sadness when the girl that he liked stood him up on New Years Eve. Even with no words you could really feel the negative emotions coming from his character. All in all I really enjoyed his production and would be interested in seeing some of his other works.