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Listening Exercise
You will hear an interview with an engineer called Roger Moffat, who now works in the movie industry For questions 1-5, answer the questions using a word or short phrase. 1. How did Roger feel initially about being made redundant? 2. What does Roger feel is the greatest benefit of running his own business? 3. What is Roger's attitude towards his future? 4. How can Roger's appraisal of engineers best be summarised? 5. What does Roger find most satisfying about the 'tools of the trade'? 2 The film industry Exercice 5 11 Answer the questions according to the reading passage. Film-Making In the 1920s, new technology allowed filmmakers to attach to each film a soundtrack of speech, music and sound effects synchronized with the action on the screen. These sound films were initially distinguished by calling them talking pictures, or talkies. The next major step in the development of cinema was the introduction of color. While the addition of sound to film revolutionized the medium, quickly driving out silent movies, color was adopted more gradually. The public was relatively indifferent to color photography as opposed to black-and- white. But as color processes improved and became as affordable as black-and- white film, more and more movies were filmed in color after the end of World War II, as the industry in America came to view color an essential to attracting audiences in its competition with television, which remained a black-and-white medium until the mid-60s. By the end of the 1960s, color had become the norm for filmmakers. Download 1.44 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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