Three Armenian Films
Paul Chaderjian March 5, 2003 Mamoulian's Love Me Tonight "Love Me Tonight," the 1929 motion picture musical, was a groundbreaking template of contemporary sound design in motion pictures. Today, it stands as testament of when and how the art of using sound in narrative motion pictures, music videos, concert films and television was created. In addition to its historic creation of sound design, "Love Me Tonight" was also the vehicle with which filmmaker Rouben Mamoulian changed the relationship between filmmaking cameras and the subjects they photographed. Through the use of ambient sounds, musical beats, orchestrated melodies, machine-gun-like dialogue and the pace created by the motion of the actors and the rhythm of the editing, "Love Me Tonight" set the standard for filmmakers and producers who would continue to marry audio to film or television media products. This ability to capture and sustain a pace, a tempo within a the...