Movietone sound-on-film process
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The Movietone sound-on-film process was an early motion picture technology that recorded audio directly onto the film strip as a variable-density optical track, enabling synchronized sound and image in cinema.
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| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Movietone sound-on-film process canonical | 1 |
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cinema technology
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sound-on-film process ⓘ |
| advantage |
better synchronization reliability than sound-on-disc
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single-strip sound and picture ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Movietone NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Film sound technologies
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Fox Film technologies ⓘ |
| commercialIntroduction | 1927 ⓘ |
| competedWith |
RCA Photophone system
NERFINISHED
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Vitaphone sound-on-disc system NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| component |
light source for reading optical track
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photoelectric cell sound pickup in projector ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| developedBy |
Earl I. Sponable
NERFINISHED
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Fox Film Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ Theodore Case NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| disadvantage | susceptibility to print wear affecting sound quality ⓘ |
| enables | synchronized sound and image ⓘ |
| era | late 1920s ⓘ |
| field | film sound technology ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | helped establish sound-on-film as dominant motion picture sound system ⓘ |
| medium | 35 mm film ⓘ |
| notableUser | Fox Movietone News NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | silent film era ⓘ |
| readingMethod | projector sound head scans optical track ⓘ |
| records | audio directly onto film strip ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Fox Film Corporation sound program
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optical soundtrack ⓘ sound film ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
later standardized optical sound formats
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variable-area optical sound systems ⓘ |
| soundEncodingType | variable-density ⓘ |
| soundLocationOnFilm | alongside picture frames ⓘ |
| soundRepresentation | variations in optical density correspond to audio signal ⓘ |
| usedFor |
feature films
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newsreels ⓘ |
| uses |
optical sound recording
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variable-density optical track ⓘ |
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