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Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931. Vitaphone is the last major analog sound-on-disc system and the only one that was widely used and commercially successful.
The American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) created most of the technology that would make Vitaphone possible. Western Electric, the manufacturing arm of AT&T, had built a system for electrical sound recording and playback in synchronization with a motion picture as early as 1925.
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Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931. Vitaphone was the last major analog sound-on-disc system and the only one which was widely used and commercially successful.
Vitaphone. cinematic sound system. Learn about this topic in these articles: motion-picture sound development. In history of film: Introduction of sound. …a sophisticated sound-on-disc system called Vitaphone, which their representatives attempted to market to Hollywood in 1925.
Vitagraph Studios, also known as the Vitagraph Company of America, was a United States motion picture studio. It was founded by J. Stuart Blackton and Albert E. Smith in 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, as the American Vitagraph Company. By 1907, it was the most prolific American film production company, producing many famous silent films. [1] .
The Vitaphone Corporation was formed in April 1926 by Warner Brothers Pictures, Incorporated, in partnership with Western Electric to produce and exploit the Western Electric sound-on-disc synchronized sound film system, dubbed the Vitaphone sound film process, in 1926.
The Vitaphone Project has worked to preserve and restore the many performances captured in Vitaphone features during the dawn of the sound era, namely highlighting the works of performers who transitioned from live vaudeville routines to careers in the film industry.
