CIN380H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Phonofilm, Lucille Fletcher, Thomas Edison
18 Sep 2018
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Cin380 lecture 2: gomery there is a notion that this period of conversion was chaotic (we all believed this up until the 1970"s) During the 1920"s, the studio needed those companies. The jazz singer wasn"t the first sound film. At&t and rca became obsessed with amplification, and were also working on sending telephone and radio signals out: warner bros. and fox (innovation) 1923-1924 wb has what the other major studios do not have they could turn their. Used his invention of the audion tube (which at&t also piggybacks on) ti synchronize sound and picture for cinema. Failed miserably and the company was almost ruined: at&t subsidiary western electric. Businesses, pa systems, the military were all interested in the loudspeaker amplification all of these things would be electronically produced. From western electric, warner brothers bought the vitagraph, then bought the first. National theatre chain in the u. s. , and also radio stations, to promote products and.
