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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.
- United States
- Motion pictures
Warner Bros. was allowed to keep the Vitaphone Corporation, but it had to forfeit its partnership with AT&T, and become just another licensee of the proprietary technology. When Western Electric first developed the Vitaphone system, it also discovered a way to encode sound on the same strip of 35mm film that contained the picture.
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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.
Warner Bros. kept the "Vitaphone" trademark alive in the name of its short subjects division, The Vitaphone Corporation (officially dissolved at the end of 1959), most famous for releasing the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons.
Vitaphone. The Vitaphone was a sound-on-disc system developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric. The system was first embraced by the Warner Brothers and over 100 short subjects were produced at the Warner Brothers-First National Studios in the mid 1920s. The cumbersome equipment, used to produce and show the product, did not ...
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.
