>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
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