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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...
- ("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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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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Powers invested in what
remained of the
sound film
company DeForest Phonofilm in the
spring of 1927. Lee De
Forest was on the
verge of bankruptcy, due...
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created using Powers'
Cinephone system,
which used Lee de Forest's
Phonofilm system. Pat Powers'
company distributed Steamboat Willie,
which was an...
- 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...
- Tefiphon/Teficord (early 1930s),
Tefifon Dictabelt (1947) Sound-on-film
Phonofilm (1919) Tri-Ergon (1922)
Movietone (1926)
Photophone (1929) Fantasound...
- sound-on-disc and sound-on-film
sound formats, such as
Photokinema (1921),
Phonofilm (1923),
Vitaphone (1926), Fox
Movietone (1927) and RCA
Photophone (1928)...
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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...
