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Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931. Vitaphone is the last major analog sound-on-disc system and the only one that was widely used and commercially successful.
Phonofilm is an optical sound-on-film system developed by inventors Lee de Forest and Theodore Case in the early 1920s.. In 1919 and 1920, de Forest, inventor of the audion tube, filed his first patents on a sound-on-film process, DeForest Phonofilm, which recorded sound directly onto film as parallel lines.
In 1889, Louis Glass and William S. Arnold invented the nickel-in-the-slot phonograph, in San Francisco. [3] This was an Edison Class M Electric Phonograph retrofitted with a device patented under the name of 'Coin Actuated Attachment for Phonograph'. The music was heard via one of four listening tubes. [4]
Wax phonograph cylinder recordings of Handel's choral music made on June 29, 1888, at The Crystal Palace in London were thought to be the oldest-known surviving musical recordings, [39] until the recent playback by a group of American historians of a phonautograph recording of Au clair de la lune recorded on April 9, 1860.
In the silent film days, live music always accompanied movies, and movies were events. "Over the years, theaters got smaller," said Steve Linder. "Then, people started watching it on their television.
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.
Words and Music: August 18, 1929 Fox Film Corporation All-Talkie Lost The Careless Age: August 18, 1929 First National All-Talkie Audio-only [Discs 3-7] Halleluiah: August 20, 1929 MGM All-Talkie Extant Marianne [F 55] August 24, 1929 MGM All-Talkie Extant The Very Idea: August 24, 1929 RKO All-Talkie Extant The Soul of France [F 56] August 24 ...
Blue Amberol Records was the trademark name for cylinder records manufactured by Thomas A. Edison, Inc. in the US from 1912 to 1929. They replaced the 4-minute black wax Amberol cylinders introduced in 1908, which had replaced the 2-minute wax cylinders that had been the standard format since the late 1880s.