Sound film killed theater-pit musician jobs forever — and created sound design
ccerrato147 · x · 2026-09-24
A segment of ccerrato147's thread: when sound came to the movies, tens of thousands of musicians played live in theater pits nightly and fought back with ads of a robot ripping the strings out of a harp. They were right — those jobs never came back. Instead, we got sound design.
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