Talking movies (1927)

Record Details:

Title:
Talking movies
Date:
1927
Publisher:
New York : Cameron Publishing Co., Inc.
Volume:
Talking movies
Leaf #:
0009
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
December 21, 2023
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TALKING MOVIES To the "old timer" in the motion picture business the statement that talking movies are by no means a product of yesterday is no news. In the patent office in London, England, the first patent for the taking and showing of motion pictures synchromzed with sound dates back to the year 1892. Between that year and 1912, no less than 91 patents were granted on apparatus dealing with either the taking or snowing of motion pictures with sound. In this country we all remember Edison's Phonokinetograph and Kineto^hone in the early davs of motion pictures. Up until three or four v-ars ago talking movies seemed a dead issue t^en along came De Forest with his Phono Film, t^e Warner Bros. W:th the Vitaphone, Fox Fi1m Corn, with the Movietone, and the General Electric Co. with their systems, and the whole subject is revived aeain. In this work the writer has divided the subject into two parts the first is a history of the talking movie from the year 1900 up to the outbreak of the world war. and for this part of the work the writer is indebted to \fVssrs. Hnn-vvooH mJ Fo^t^r. the s°mnd Dart rl-^ls with the various systems now being: used with success in the theatres of this country. J. R. C. New York City.