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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...
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premiered 18
Phonofilm short films at the
independent Rivoli Theater in New York City.
Starting in May 1924, Max and Dave
Fleischer used the
Phonofilm process...
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Thomas Edison"), who
improved Phonofilm's amplification system to be
audible in a
large theater.
Phonofilm was used
mainly to
record stage performances...
- Ben
Bernie and All the Lads, made in New York City with the De
Forest Phonofilm sound-on-film system. In the 1920s,
Levant recorded with the Ben Bernie...
- Forest's
Phonofilm Corporation. In the aftermath,
Powers hired a
former DeForest technician,
William Garrity, to
produce a
cloned version of the
Phonofilm system...
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British Talking Pictures,
which purchased the
primary Phonofilm ****ets. By the end of 1930, the
Phonofilm business would be liquidated. In Europe,
others were...
- Tefiphon/Teficord (early 1930s),
Tefifon Dictabelt (1947) Sound-on-film
Phonofilm (1919) Tri-Ergon (1922)
Movietone (1926)
Photophone (1929) Fantasound...
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playing the ukulele, in
Stringed Harmony, a
short film made in the
DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process. On
August 6, 1926,
Smeck appeared playing the ukulele...
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Federal Radio Commission. On
August 11, 1924,
Theodore W. Case,
using the
Phonofilm sound-on-film
process he
developed for Lee de Forest,
filmed Coolidge...
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created using Powers'
Cinephone system,
which used Lee de Forest's
Phonofilm system. Pat Powers'
distribution company distributed Steamboat Willie...
