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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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British Talking Pictures,
which purchased the
primary Phonofilm ****ets. By the end of 1930, the
Phonofilm business would be liquidated. In Europe,
others were...
- ("Finland's
Thomas Edison"), who
improved Phonofilm's amplification system to be
audible in a
large theater.
Phonofilm was used
mainly to
record stage performances...
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debuted his own
Phonofilm sound-on-film
system in New York City on April 15, 1923, but due to the
relatively poor
sound quality of
Phonofilm and the impressive...
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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...
- 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...
- the 1920s. The
others were DeForest's
Phonofilm,
Warner Brothers' Vitaphone, and RCA Photophone. However,
Phonofilm was prin****lly an
early version of...
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division of
DeForest Phonofilm and Red Seal
Pictures Corporation filed for bankruptcy, and the
Fleischers ended their use of the
Phonofilm system, releasing...
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premiering at the
Century Theatre in New York City in the short-lived
Phonofilm sound-on-film process. Kriemhild's
Revenge was
released in the U.S. in...
- was
created using Powers'
Cinephone system,
which used Lee de Forest's
Phonofilm system. Pat Powers'
company distributed Steamboat Willie,
which was an...
