18 Facts About Sound film

Sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.

The first feature film originally presented as a talkie was The Jazz Singer, which premiered on October 6, 1927.

In Japan, where the popular Sound film tradition integrated silent movie and live vocal performance, talking pictures were slow to take root.

Sound film then determined that he could reverse the process and reproduce the recorded sound from this photographic strip by shining a bright light through the running filmstrip, with the resulting varying light illuminating a selenium cell.

Sound film called this invention the photographophone, which he summarized as: "It is truly a wonderful process: sound becomes electricity, becomes light, causes chemical actions, becomes light and electricity again, and finally sound.

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In 1914, Finnish inventor Eric Tigerstedt was granted German patent 309, 536 for his sound-on-film work; that same year, he apparently demonstrated a film made with the process to an audience of scientists in Berlin.

Whether sound was captured on cylinder, disc, or film, none of the available technology was adequate for big-league commercial purposes, and for many years the heads of the major Hollywood film studios saw little benefit in producing sound motion pictures.

The following year, De Forest's studio released the first commercial dramatic film shot as a talking picture—the two-reeler Love's Old Sweet Song, directed by J Searle Dawley and featuring Una Merkel.

Unlike Fox-Case's Movietone and De Forest's PhonoSound film, which were variable-density systems, Photophone was a variable-area system—a refinement in the way the audio signal was inscribed on Sound film that would ultimately become the standard.

Early in 1929, Tobis and KlangSound film began comarketing their recording and playback technologies.

In 1928, the Sound film had been released as the silent Der Rote Kreis in Germany, where it was shot; English dialogue was apparently dubbed in much later using the De Forest PhonoSound film process controlled by BSFP's corporate parent.

The Soviet Union's robust film industry came out with its first sound features in December 1930: Dziga Vertov's nonfiction Enthusiasm had an experimental, dialogueless soundtrack; Abram Room's documentary Plan velikikh rabot had music and spoken voiceovers.

The sensitivity of the new panchromatic Sound film delivered superior image tonal quality and gave directors the freedom to shoot scenes at lower light levels than was previously practical.

Tobis-KlangSound film has the exclusive rights to provide equipment for: Germany, Danzig, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, Holland, the Dutch Indies, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Finland.

Sound film, in fact, was a clear boon to all the major players in the industry.

The first year in which sound film production predominated over silent film—not only in the United States, but in the West as a whole—was 1929; yet the years 1929 through 1933 are represented by three dialogueless pictures and zero talkies in the Time Out poll.

The emergence of sound film effectively separated deaf from hearing audience members .

Sound film experimented with asynchronous audio tricks, as in the famous scene in which a chase after a coat is synched to the cheers of an invisible football crowd.