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  2. List of early sound feature films (1926–1929) - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part or full talking feature films made in the United States and Europe during the transition to sound, between 1926 and 1929. [1] During this time a variety of recording systems were used, including sound on film formats such as Movietone and RCA Photophone , as well as sound on disc formats like ...

  3. List of cinematic firsts - Wikipedia

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    The Broadway Melody, first ever musical film. Also the first sound film and first musical to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Happy Days is the first feature film to be shown entirely in widescreen anywhere in the world. It was filmed using the Fox Grandeur 70 mm process. [50] Glorifying the American Girl, the first film with sound to swear.

  4. The Jazz Singer - Wikipedia

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    I couldn't compete with a picture theatre across the street showing the first great sound picture in the world...for fifty cents, while the price at my theatre was $3.00." [42] As the truly pivotal event, Crafton points to the national release of the film's sound version in early 1928—he dates it to January, [27] Block and Wilson to February ...

  5. List of years in film - Wikipedia

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    The Dickson Experimental Sound Film made by William Dickson in late 1894 or early 1895 is the first known film with live-recorded sound and appears to be the first motion picture made for the Kinetophone, the proto-sound-film system developed by Dickson and Edison.

  6. Sound film - Wikipedia

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    The movie was made with the sound-on-film system controlled by the German-Dutch firm Tobis, corporate heirs to the Tri-Ergon concern. With an eye toward commanding the emerging European market for sound film, Tobis entered into a compact with its chief competitor, Klangfilm, a joint subsidiary of Germany's two leading electrical manufacturers.

  7. History of film - Wikipedia

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    In its nineteen years of operation, the Limelight Department produced about 300 films of various lengths, making it one of largest film producers of its time. The Limelight Department made a 1904 film by Joseph Perry called Bushranging in North Queensland, which is believed to be the first ever film about bushrangers.

  8. The Dickson Experimental Sound Film - Wikipedia

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    The Dickson Experimental Sound Film is a film made by William Dickson in late 1894 or early 1895. It is the first known film with live-recorded sound and appears to be the first motion picture made for the Kinetophone, the proto-sound-film system developed by Dickson and Thomas Edison.

  9. List of the first films by country - Wikipedia

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    Silent film Sound recording Colour film Longest film Notes United Kingdom: 1888 Roundhay Garden Scene (1888) [1] [2] Algy the Piccadilly Johnny (1900) Blackmail (1929 film) Representatives of the British Isles (1909) [3] USA: 1889 Monkeyshines (1889) The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1895) Children Forming the U.S. Flag (1909) O.J.: Made in ...