>On another list, the subject of people talking during the film has come up.= I >wonder if there has been any research into the subject of "proper" audience >behavior in theater and/or film as a historically-defined act. > >People used to walk around and chat in the pit in Shakespeare's >day and old vaudeville and comedia theaters had the audience talking back (= and >sometimes throwing stuff). As a completely unconfirmed hypothesis, I= wonder if >the Golden Age of Silence began first in the live theater, c. 1850 or so an= d >spread to cinema only when sound came in. Other ideas, confirmations? > >Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN) > I don=B4t think that early cinema audiences accepted silence as common. Just take a look at the french-italian film Cinema Paradiso, a very warm film. In the little italian village the screening of films make the people go wild, commentating the plot and so on. Ulf Hgaberg >---- >To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L >in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]