Tantalising Fragments

This article will consider the tantalising fragments of the Scottish voice in the early talkies, exploring the response of Scottish audiencesto various accents and voices, and offering a survey of the films set or produced in Scotland during the period of transition from silentcinema to sound. Parti...

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Published in:Music, sound and the moving image sound and the moving image, 2018-10, Vol.12 (2), p.171-270
Main Author: Neely, Sarah
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accentuation
Archives & records
Audiences
Documentary films
Motion picture directors & producers
Motion pictures
Oral history
Silent films
Singers
Speaking
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Summary:This article will consider the tantalising fragments of the Scottish voice in the early talkies, exploring the response of Scottish audiencesto various accents and voices, and offering a survey of the films set or produced in Scotland during the period of transition from silentcinema to sound. Particular focus will be given to Jenny Gilbertson’s The Rugged Island: A Shetland Lyric (1934), one of the early Scottishindigenous sound productions that have been largely overlooked in critical accounts of early sound cinema in Britain. As this article willillustrate, the film offers unique insight into the disjuncture between the ambitions of filmmakers in relation to how Scotland might featureon the soundtracks of the early talkies and the reality of what could be achieved given the limitations of the available technologies.
ISSN:1753-0768
1753-0776
DOI:10.3828/msmi.2018.10