Relações sinestésicas entre imagem e som, entre cor e som e alguns exemplos no cinema silencioso

Resumen

Color was very frequent in cinema since its beginning and the notion of synesthesia has always been important – not only for abstract films, but for cinema in general. This article discusses synesthetic relations between images and sounds in the cinema, taking as example the film Sunrise (F. W. Murnau, 1927). Then, we examine more specifically the association between colors and sounds and some of its reverberations in the field of moving images, commenting three experiments quite different from each other: the Corning kinetic-therapeutic experiment (1899), the Jenkins Phantascope (1895) and Loyd Jones kaleidoscope (1924) and Sonochrome (1929).