Why the original 4:3 aspect ratio was chosen from the very earliest stage of motion picture development remains something of a puzzle. Although the 4:3 ratio had been used often for 19th Century...
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The "Latham Loop" is the small, slack-forming loop that the film's path takes just before it passes in back of a camera's, or in front of a projector's, shutter.
Well, actually you've asked a surprisingly complicated question. Sound didn't just suddenly appear with the production of one film, and the line between the "silent–era" and the "sound–era" is...
