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The Audio Catcher is a free public domain sound effect library with a vast collection of high-quality sound effects, from ambient sounds to unique foley creations. Created by Night Wolf, a passionate foley artist with a background in music production, The Audio Catcher is perfect for any project or production. The YouTube channel offers 360-degree audio tours and behind-the-scenes videos that showcase the process of creating the sound effects. Regularly updated with new content, the channel aims to inspire sound designers, music producers, and content creators. The Audio Catcher is committed to providing high-quality, royalty-free sound effects to the creative community, with no hidden fees or complicated licensing agreements. Linked to No Paw Audio, a premium sound design company offering bespoke sound effects and foley for specialized projects. Soundscapes that bring your imagination to life, FREE TO USE! Capturing, Preserving and Cataloguing for educational and public use.

Silent Films in the Public Domain

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A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no audible dialogue). In silent films for entertainment, the plot may be conveyed by the use of title cards, written indications of the plot and key dialogue lines. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, the introduction of synchronized dialogue became practical only in the late 1920s with the perfection of the Audion amplifier tube and the advent of the Vitaphone system.[1] The term "silent film" is something of a misnomer, as these films were almost always accompanied by live sounds. During the silent era that existed from the mid-1890s to the late 1920s, a pianist, theater organist—or even, in large cities, a small orchestra—would often play music to accompany the films. Pianists and organists would play either from sheet music, or improvisation. Sometimes a person would even narrate the intertitle cards for the audience. Though at the time the technology to synchronize sound with the video did not exist, music was seen as an essential part of the viewing experience. The term is also frequently used to describe sound-era films that have a recorded music-only soundtrack without dialogue, such as City Lights and The Artist. The term silent film is a retronym—a term created to retroactively distinguish something. Early sound films, starting with The Jazz Singer in 1927, were variously referred to as the "talkies", "sound films", or "talking pictures". Within a decade, the widespread production of silent films for popular entertainment had ceased, and the industry had moved fully into the sound era, in which movies were accompanied by synchronized sound recordings of spoken dialogue, music and sound effects. Most early motion pictures are considered lost because the nitrate film used in that era was extremely unstable and flammable. Additionally, many films were deliberately destroyed because they had negligible continuing financial value in this era. It has often been claimed that around 75 percent of silent films produced in the US have been lost, though these estimates may be inaccurate due to a lack of numerical data.[2]