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	MIC Preservation Portal: Preserving Motion Picture Sound
		Sound was recorded on print film, which was then printed on the same print film as the picture.
		If the sound playback head was installed at this location, the interruption in the film’s movement would yield an unacceptable “staccato” like sound.) Thus the sound is said to be “advanced” from the picture, and this sync relationship is established at the laboratory when the print is made.
		In order to maintain sync between the machine playing the sound and the machine or device that is recording it, both machines must be referenced to the same source, whether it is wall current, a video generator or, in the case of digital devices, a word clock.
	mic.imtc.gatech.edu /preservationists_portal/presv_sound.htm (1850 words)

	Movietone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Movietone sound system for recording synchronised sound onto film.
		Movietone News, A company producing cinema newsreels from the 1920s onwards.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Movietone (94 words)

	Editors Guild Magazine - Features
		Any sound projected on the screen along with the picture would then be out of sync with the actors." To compensate, Gitt had all the analogue optical tracks re-recorded to magnetic sound, without going through multiple photographic generations or electronic copying.
		Optical sound's roots go back to the 1884 experiments by Alexander Graham Bell and Sumner Tainter, which used a beam of light modulated by a jet of fl ink coming from a nozzle attached to a sounding board to create the first spiral (as opposed to Edison cylinder) recordings.
		Movietone soon proved more durable and portable than Vitaphone, (though at first, neither process freed the motion picture camera from its sound proof booth) and was used to film 1928's In Old Arizona, the first all-talking sound-on-film picture, and also the first sound picture to be photographed almost entirely outdoors.
	www.editorsguild.com /v2/magazine/archives/1105/features_moviestalk.htm (2142 words)

	http://xft001/metz/sound.htm
		The sound and image tracks had to be recorded at the same time to insure synchronization.
		This allowed for sound which was not merely redundant with the image, thus increasing the artistic potential of the cinema.
		Sound allowed the urban gangster film to deliver gunfire and other sorts of armed violence as well as a tough vernacular speech.
	www.montana.edu /metz/website/filmamer/sound.htm (1786 words)

	20 April History: This Date
		Until the 1920s, any sound associated with motion pictures came either from live actors and musicians or from a phonograph, but by the early 1920s, several competing sound systems had developed.
		Additional developments improved sound quality over the decades, including the introduction of magnetic tape recording by 1950 and the stereophonic sound system later in the decade.
		Dolby Laboratories introduced a noise-reduction system that became popular in the late '70s, and digital sound systems added additional clarity and crispness to soundtracks in the early 1990s.
	www.safran-arts.com /42day/history/h4apr/h4apr20.html (11952 words)

	The Speed of Sound: Hollywood and the Talkie Revolution, 1926-1930
		The forced introduction of sound technologies into the mainstream of Hollywood motion picture production in 1928 was the worst thing that happened to the art of the silent film and the status quo of the recently established Hollywood studio system.
		Whether their concern was for exposing their high-priced and extremely popular stable of actors to a passing fad that could potentially alienate legions of film fans or that they smuggly refused to believe that a couple of two-bit producers had stumbled onto something of true marketable value remains a subject of historical debate.
		The Sound of Speed is a worthwhile document, along side of Harry Geduld's The Birth of the Talkies, of this confusing and painful transformation of a static technology into a precious artform.
	www.cinemonkey.com /reviews/bennett/soundbennett.html (1230 words)

	AMCTV.com - Sound Design
		Rather than using a disc, the Movietone system actually rendered the sound track optically on a part of the film itself.
		The Movietone News was the first newsreel that contained sound and its first coup was coverage of Lindhberg's trans-Atlantic flight.
		Sound is recorded digitally so there is no noise created by the tape.
	www.amctv.com /article?CID=1054-1--0-17-UTC (691 words)

	Movie Timeline: 1920 - 1929 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Reproducing a musical score, singing, and sound effects, but no dialogue, the soundâ“onâ“disc system is synchronized with the action on the films.
		The RCA reproducing systems are cheaper to install in theaters than the Movietone systems, yet the optical tracks of each are interchangeable.
		This is the first sound feature film to use an Africanâ“American cast, and was seen at the time as a sign of Hollywood 's racial tolerance.
	www.pictureshowman.com /timeline_1920_1929.cfm (2690 words)

	Austalian sound innovations
		Each sound company had to be able to gain Western Electric's approval in order to secure distributor's contracts for the supply of sound films produced with WE recording equipment.
		The financial problems faced by sound companies were, of course, exacerbated by the Depression, which had a profound impact on the Australian sound industry as it had on industry in general around the world.
		These two men were part of the larger picture of the coming of sound as they continued to apply their engineering skills to new jobs in other sound companies throughout the mid-1930s.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr_16/byfr16.html (3602 words)

	Everything about Pontiac (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Separate from, but not entirely independent of, this federal court system are the individual court systems of each state, each dealing with its own laws and having its own judicial rules and procedures.
		A case may be appealed from a state court to a federal court only if there is a federal question; the supreme court of each state is the final authority on the interpretation of that state's laws and constitution.
		The Mesoamerican education system was set aside and replaced by church education; even some foods associated with religion, like amaranto, were forbidden.
	sk.wikimiki.org /en/Pontiac (11644 words)

	Errors in Animation History Books - Animation Show Forums
		In 1928 there were only two sound systems commercialy available (The Vitaphone and Movietone) and each was owned by rival studios (Vitaphoen by Warner Bros. and Movietone by Fox) and there is no record that Fleischer used either of these in 1928 since he was associated with Paramount at that time.
		Although William Fox had bought a number of sound patents (including the Tri-Ergon System), he did not have exclusive ownership of the Variable Density recording method, and went into a partnership with Western Electric, who was about to abandon the Vitaphone system in favor of the more practical sound-on-film method.
		Disney sound cartoons, as the dynamics of the recordings in these were actually inferior to those of the tracks on the SONG CAR-TUNES originally produced using the Phonofilm Process under Fleischer and the Red Seal Company.
	www.animationshow.com /forums/index.php?s=4a856f0fa3f50db9871b3747075d962b&act=ST&f=8&t=712&hl=petit,and,ourson&st=15 (4342 words)

	Motion Picture Sound - part 1
		The GE system was called the Kinegraphone and used to exhibit a "road show" version of the Paramount film Wings in 1927, using multiple-unit cone-and-baffle type loudspeakers in a bank on each side of the screen.
		It was the first industrial sound picture and was shown at the Hotel Astor in New York at a dinner given by C. DuBois, then president of Western Electric, to 250 Bell System officials.
		This variable density system would compete for the next decade with the RCA variable area system that was adopted by RKO after 1928.
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/recording/motionpicture1.html (2107 words)

	Fox Film - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The company's first film studios were set up in Fort Lee, New Jersey but in 1917, William Fox sent Sol M. Wurtzel to Hollywood, California to oversee the studio's new West Coast production facilities where a more hospitable and cost effective climate existed for filmmaking.
		On July 23, 1926, the company bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound on to film.
		William Fox lost control over the company after the Stock Market Crash of 1929, in 1930, during a hostile takeover.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fox_Film_Corporation (206 words)

	1926 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		January 26 - John Logie Baird demonstrates a mechanical television system.
		July 23 - Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
		August 6 - In New York, the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone system premieres with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
	www.icyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/1/19/1926.html (873 words)

	The Shakedown (1929) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Trivia: A part-talkie released at a time when the public was clamoring for sound, this demonstrates the difficulty Carl Laemmle faced in 1929 when he was unable to secure Fox's Movietone sound system on a permanent basis.
		Love interest is provided by Barbara Kent, who may be remembered from her winning performance in LONESOME and later sound films.
		Wyler was not thought to have made any great silents, but this one is a classic, with fine camerawork, a captivating cast, a dynamic story, and an uplifting feeling.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0020392 (376 words)

	Wikipedia: 20th Century Fox
		The studio is a subsidiary of News Corporation, the Australian media conglomerate owned by Rupert Murdoch.
		On July 23, 1926, Fox Film bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound on to film.
		Founder William Fox was forced out of Fox Film, and new leadership under president Sidney Kent in 1935 merged with Twentieth Century Pictures (formed 1933 when producer Darryl F. Zanuck left Warner Brothers to produce under Joseph Schenck, former head of United Artists and brother of Nicholas Schenck.)
	www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/2/20/20th_century_fox.html (269 words)

	White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Trivia: This was MGM's first sound picture, and premiered in Hollywood at Sid Grauman's Chinese Theater on Friday, 3 Aug 1928.
		There are some awesome underwater sequences, featuring octopuses, sharks, pearl-diving and others featuring palm-climbing, dancing, etc. Notice the different tinting (reddish, blue, sepia...) of the sequences of the film; only at the beginning and on the end, plain fl and white is used.
		Great Sound score for this late "silent film", the first used for a MGM film and the first time Leo-the-Lion roared!
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0019574 (442 words)

	Travel Trivia Vacation Time: New York
		He invented the system in his backyard greenhouse, which he called the Case Research Lab.
		His Movietone sound system revolutionized the movie business.
		His lab was restored and reopened to the public in 1994 as the Case Research Lab Museum.
	www.traveltriviatime.com /fNewYork.htm (105 words)

	Film History of the 1920s
		Although called silents, they were never really silent but accompanied by sound organs, gramophone discs, musicians, sound effects specialists, live actors who delivered dialogue, and even full-scale orchestras.
		Warner Bros. launched sound and talking pictures, with Bell Telephone Laboratory researchers, by developing a revolutionary synchronized sound system called Vitaphone (a short-lived sound-on-disc process developed in 1925 that quickly became obsolete by 1931).
		This process allowed sound to be recorded on a phonograph record that was electronically linked and synchronized with the film projector - but it was destined to be faulty due to inherent synchronization problems.
	www.filmsite.org /20sintro3.html (1617 words)

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		On this day in 1926, Fox Film Corp. purchases the patents for a sound system that will record sound onto film.
		Studio founder William Fox pays $60,000 for the system, which he renames Movietone.
		Movietone soon became associated with newsreels, which captured newsworthy events on film and created a valuable historical record in the process.
	www.gigfoot.net /lol/facts/1011.html (122 words)

	American Cinematographer: A Flexible Finish - page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		There were at least two original negatives for Sunrise, one for the Movietone version (1.20:1) that was exhibited in the few North American theaters equipped with Fox's patented Movietone sound system, and one for the full-aperture (1.33:1) silent version that was exhibited everywhere else.
		In the digital realm it's extremely easy to take out anything that sounds like a defect - a pop or hiss or crackle - but depending on the studio and time period, that could actually be what the film sounded like.
		We wanted to very sure we weren't removing something that had always been there, so we made a transfer of the print onto video with the track area visible, and if we heard something [questionable] we could go back to the picture and determine whether it was an artifact induced by time or wear.
	www.theasc.com /magazine/june03/sub/page4.html (1289 words)

	don-juan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		From The Cinema Book, edited by Pam Cook: "In May 1925, Harry and Jack Warner witnessed a demonstration of Western Electric's sound system, and, intrigued by the possibilities it presented, a deal between the two companies was negotiated.
		At this point, the Fox Film Corporation decided to join the move to sound, and with the acquisition of their own sound system began to produce sound newsreels under the Movietone banner.
		By the following spring, all the majors were busily engaged in equipping studios for the transition to sound, and the Vitaphone system was rapidly revised.
	yorty.sonoma.edu /filmfrog/reviews/d/don-juan.html (429 words)

	[Islam-Online- Art & Entertainment]
		Beginning in October 1927, Fox used what it called the Movietone sound system, to bring sound to newsreels that it played in cinemas before presentation of the company's feature films.
		In 1928, Fox began making feature sound films that used the Movietone system, and soon other major studios began converting to this technology.
		But during the late 1950s and early 1960s, Twentieth Century Fox nearly went bankrupt after it produced a string of financial failures, including the wildly expensive film "Cleopatra" (1963).
	www.islamonline.net /IOL-english/dowalia/art-2-12/art3.asp (565 words)

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		The debts were pressing, and he began by confidence, and of this he took advantage to devise a system of rapidly increased, he had recourse to those commercial inventions goods or other value received, and the first endorser pays the amount tolerated because it is impossible to detect it, and, moreover, it is refused.
		When at length it was evidently impossible to borrow any.
	www.searchword.org /ju/july-23.html (1011 words)

	Silent Era : PSFL : The Canary Murder Case (1929)
		The silent film version was directed by St. Clair; the sound film retakes were directed by Tuttle.
		Brooks’ voice was dubbed by Livingston when Brooks refused to return to America from Germany for sound retakes.
		Survival Status: Print exists (of the sound version only).
	www.silentera.com /PSFL/data/C/CanaryMurderCase1929.html (228 words)

	Recording Technology History
		Others before Edison had tried to record sound, but Edison and his tinfoil phonograph were the first to succeed.
		1916 - Theodore Case founded his Case Research Laboratory in Auburn, New York, to develop a sound-on-film recording system for motion pictures to compete with Edison's sound-on-cylinder system; Case and Earl Sponable developed the Thalofide photo-electric cell used by the Navy in WWI to transmit secret messages by infrared light.
		1928 - John Baird in England developed an early form of mechanical television and recorded moving images and sound on Phonovision wax discs but Vladimir Zworykin in the U.S. and Manfred von Ardenne in Germany perfected the cathode ray tube for electronic television by 1929.
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/recording/notes.html (5488 words)

	Cayuga County's Many Historic Homes and Museums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		She died on March 10, 1913 at the South Street property and is buried in Fort Hill Cemetery.
		History: The Case Research Lab is the site where the first successful system of sound film was invented.
		This invention in 1923 made history as the Movietone sound system of Fox Films (now 20th Century Fox), and Fox Case Movietone News.
	www.cayuganet.org /tourism/museums.html (636 words)

	Everything about 1926 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Alexander Popov, who was the first to develop a practical communication system based on the coherer, is usually considered to have been the inventor of radio.
		Tesla claimed that Wardenclyffe, as part of a World System of transmitters, would have allowed secure multichannel transceiving of information, universal navigation, time synchronization, and a global location system.
		This continued through the early 1960s when VOR systems finally became widespread (though AM stations are still marked on U.S. aviation charts).
	mas.nl.wikimiki.org /en/1926 (7986 words)

	1926 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		January 16 – BBC radio play about worker's revolution causes a panic in London
		July 12 - Lightning strike destroys an ammunition depot in Dover, New Jersey
		August 6 - Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim the English Channel from France to England
	www.worldslastchance.com /encyclopedia/index.php/1926 (1954 words)

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