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Camel through the eye of a needle 1926 and 1936 (film adaptations of the play by František Langer)
Čížkovská, Jana ; Klimeš, Ivan (advisor) ; Přádná, Stanislava (referee)
This Bachelor thesis focuses on two film adaptations of the play Camel through the eye of a needle by František Langer in Czech cinematography until 1936. These namely are the silent version directed by Karel Lamač, produced in 1926, and the sound version directed by Hugo Haas and Otakar Vávra in 1936. The first part of this work generally describes the original theatre play, its history, structure and developement of the main text. It shows, how successful this play was on Czech, European and American stages and how this treatrical success influenced distributional possibilities of the film adaptations in the following years. The second part then compares two film adpatations, describes their production background, cast, public and media reception.
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Sound in feature films without speech
Klusák, Martin ; ČENĚK, Jan (advisor) ; KŘÍŽ, Jiří (referee)
The main goal of this thesis is to describe the unofficial genre of films without speech and to analyze principles of the use of sound and film language in such films.
Initial chapters speak generally about the phenomenon of feature nonverbal cinema with the focus on its historical development and general film language.
The middle part presents, and briefly describes chosen films without speech, and suggests their sorting into sub-genres.
The last, vastest part of the work, is an analytic study of various approaches to reduce speech generally throughout film. This part leads into the final theoretical description of soundtrack in films without speech.
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