However, the collapse of the Near Eastern trading system pointed to a flaw: in an era where there was no place that was safe to store value, the value of a circulating medium could only be as sound as the forces that defended that store.

This may sound like a serious limitation today, but in an era when most data was stored on magnetic tape such operations were too expensive to contemplate anyway.

Experimentation with sound film technology, both for recording and playback, was virtually constant throughout the silent era, but the twin problems of accurate synchronization and sufficient amplification had been difficult to overcome ( Eyman, 1997 ).

Lang's magnum opus, M — released in 1931, two years before his departure from Germany — is among the first major crime films of the sound era to join a characteristically noirish visual style with a noir-type plot, one in which the protagonist is a criminal ( as are his most successful pursuers ).

While he had been in the vanguard with The Byrds and the Burrito Brothers, Parsons was now perceived as being too authentic and traditional in an era dominated by the stylings of the Eagles, whose sound Parsons disdained ( although he did maintain cordial relations with Bernie Leadon, a former member of the Eagles who left the group in 1975 ).

The sound of the electric guitar in rock music is typically supported by the electric bass guitar pioneered in jazz music in the same era, and percussion produced from a drum kit that combines drums and cymbals.

Mod era: Rickenbacker basses were seen as the stable bass of many 1970s / 1980s mod revival bands such as the Jam, with the notorious growl and clank sound featuring on hit records such as the Jam's " Eton Rifles " and " Going Underground ".

Despite their slightly lower output, " Toasters " produce a brighter, cleaner sound, and are generally seen as key to obtaining the true British Invasion guitar tone, as they were original equipment of the era.

Thus the modern sound film era may be regarded as coming to dominance beginning in 1929.

The following list includes only films produced in the sound era with the specific artistic intention of being silent.

Each group of speakers broadcast sound and music from a particular era ( e. g. King Edward VIII's abdication speech ; Gough Whitlam's speech at Parliament House in 1975 ), the overall effect being that the soundscape would " flow " through history as walkers proceeded along the bridge.

With the sound era, films like All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ) ( and its much darker German counterpart Westfront 1918 ), Howard Hawks ' Road to Glory ( 1936 ) and Grand Illusion ( 1937 ), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as Buster Keaton's Doughboys ( 1930 ) and Wheeler & Woolsey's Half Shot at Sunrise ( 1930 ), or exciting tales of the U. S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America, China, and the Pacific Islands in films like Frank Capra's Flight ( 1930 ), The Leathernecks Have Landed ( 1936 ) and Tell it to the Marines ( 1926 film ).

" The music has an African tribal sound to it, to emphasize the idea of humanity as a single unified tribe on this planet ; the lagoon is surrounded by nineteen large torches signifying the first 19 centuries of the common era, and the show culminates in the globe opening like a lotus blossom to reveal a twentieth torch, representing the now-completed 20th century.

As the Tandy 1000 line outlasted the PCjr by many years ( and in fact did not make it to market until shortly before IBM announced the discontinuation of the PCjr ) these graphics and sound standards became known as " Tandy-compatible " or ( for the graphics ) " TGA " ( standing for Tandy Graphics Adapter ) and many software packages of the era listed their support for Tandy standard hardware on the package.

With the advent of the sound era, Barthelmess ' fortunes changed.

Crawford in Rain ( 1932 film ) | Rain ( 1932 ) With the early sound film, Our Blushing Brides ( 1930 ), another financial success, MGM began to develop a more sophisticated image of Crawford, rather than continuing to promote her flapper girl persona of the silent era.

Although commonplace today, the effect bewitched audiences in the era before widespread recorded sound — after the initial 1918 run-through, Holst's daughter Imogen ( in addition to watching the charwomen dancing in the aisles during " Jupiter ") remarked that the ending was " unforgettable, with its hidden chorus of women's voices growing fainter and fainter ... until the imagination knew no difference between sound and silence ".

The “ sh ” closely resembles the sound of brushes, common in the bop era, on drum heads ; the “ ah ” vowel resonates similarly to the bass drum .</ div >

After working several years as a director of amateur theatrical groups and an entertainment director at summer resorts, he scored his first Broadway hit with Once in a Lifetime ( 1930 ), a farce about the arrival of the sound era in Hollywood.

Some also regard " Love's Theme " as the first hit in the actual " disco era ", but Nino Tempo and 5th Ave. Sax's song " Sister James " had already reached the Billboard Hot 100 a few months before and had a disco sound in its own right.

Both compositions feature the same " timeless " sound in that they do not employ any of the musical techniques of the period in which they were composed, with the intent that they be difficult to define as belonging to a particular era.

The first feature-length motion picture with sound, it effectively changed the cinematic landscape overnight and signaled the end of the silent motion picture era.

The Dream Merchants ( 1949 ) was a novel about the American film industry, from its beginning to the sound era.

Just like you sometimes recall a memory from a certain smell or sound, the objective of some ads is solely to bring back certain emotions when you see their logo in your local store.

A photo of a 35 mm film print featuring all four audio formats ( or " quad track ") — from left to right: Sony Dynamic Digital Sound | SDDS ( blue area to the left of the sprocket holes ), Dolby Digital ( grey area between the sprocket holes labelled with the Dolby " Double-D " logo in the middle ), analog optical sound ( the two white lines to the right of the sprocket holes ), and the Digital Theater System | DTS time code ( the dashed line to the far right ).

In Season Two, after the opening sequence the words " The Electric Company " would disappear from the familiar logo, and the show number would appear in its place through the use of a Scanimate animation and an electronic whooshing sound.

Jolt Cola changed its logo, and came in " battery " bottles, which make a loud popping sound when opened.

A photo of a 35 mm film print featuring all four audio formats ( or " quad track ")- from left to right: SDDS ( blue area to the left of the sprocket holes ), Dolby Digital ( grey area between the sprocket holes labelled with the Dolby " Double-D " logo in the middle ), analog optical sound ( the two white lines to the right of the sprocket holes ), and the Digital Theater System | DTS time code ( the dashed line to the far right.

A photo of a 35 mm film print featuring all four audio formats ( or quad track )- from left to right: Sony Dynamic Digital Sound ( SDDS ) ( blue area to the left of the sprocket holes ), Dolby Digital ( grey area between the sprocket holes labelled with the Dolby Double-D logo in the middle ), analog optical sound ( the two white lines to the right of the sprocket holes ), and the DTS ( sound system ) | DTS time code ( the dashed line to the far right.

" This loco appears in the LGB logo and is still in production today, although it now has a sound system and other mechanical differences to the original 1968 model.

The Robe, the first film released in CinemaScope, used the sound of a choir singing over the logo, instead of the regular fanfare.

They were identical except that the HFP-200 was capable of multi-channel TV sound, with the word " stereocast " printed after the Beta Hi-Fi logo.

" Suddenly, a sound simulating that of a scratched record is heard, and the commercial ends with the Pepsi logo and slogan.

Einstürzende Neubauten can be recognized by their Prince-esque logo, which has been subliminally fused into several mainstream American movies ( such as a tattoo in the movie Bug, directed by William Friedkin, starring Harry Connick Jr .) Their sound resembles primitive banging of pots and pans and screaming rants in German about the Russian " famine.

Image: Epicrecords. jpg | Classic radial sound sunburst logo, used in the 1960s, revived in late 1998 ; used until 2006.

As Irem entered the 1990s, their logo included a dragonfly because in Japan, dragonflies symbolize " martial success ," due to similarity in the sound of the word " dragonfly " and " victory " in Japanese.

The 511 trade name, slogan, logo design symbol and any combination, including its similarity in sound, appearance or meaning, all provide the identify for the nation's travel information number and distinguish its goods / services.

It launched with a more up-beat sound, an almost " tabloid " news style and younger presenters than most stations ; the BBC Essex symbol also didn't feature the traditional BBC logo.

A photo of a 35 mm film print featuring all four audio formats ( or " quad track ")- from left to right: Sony Dynamic Digital Sound | SDDS ( blue area to the left of the sprocket holes ), Dolby Digital ( grey area between the sprocket holes labelled with the Dolby " Double-D " logo in the middle ), analog optical sound ( the two white lines to the right of the sprocket holes ), and the Digital Theater System | DTS time code ( the dashed line to the far right.

Following a corporate re-brand of the station, including a change of logo, the more contemporary look was soon reflected in the station's sound.

Derived from a non-musical source as extreme as the band's sound, Pig Destroyer's easily identifiable logo was created using a graphic from ANSWER Me!

A trademark can be a name, word, phrase, logo, symbol, design, image, sound, shape, signature or any combination of these elements.

The logo of the show is a distinctive pyramid with a " zoom-like " sound effect ( immortalized as the " ka-chung ") for a theme.

Similarly, the sound effect was also used in the closing logo for Thunder Pictures, the company that produced Clarissa Explains It All.

A photo of a 35 mm film print featuring all four audio formats ( or " quad track ")- from left to right: Sony Dynamic Digital Sound | SDDS ( blue area to the left of the sprocket holes ), Dolby Digital ( grey area between the sprocket holes labelled with the Dolby " Double-D " logo in the middle ), analog optical sound ( the two white lines to the right of the sprocket holes ), and the DTS time code ( the dashed line to the far right.

QSound logo as shown on Paula Abdul's Spellbound ( Paula Abdul album ) | Spellbound album CD. QSound is the original name for a positional three-dimensional ( 3D ) sound processing algorithm from QSound Labs that creates 3D audio effects from multiple monophonic sources and sums the outputs to two channels for presentation over regular stereo speakers.