Vitaphone | cinematic sound system | Britannica (original) (raw)

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motion-picture sound development

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  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. Like De Forest, they were rebuffed by the major studios, but Warner Brothers, then a minor studio in the midst of aggressive expansion, bought both the system and the right to sublease it to…
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  In motion-picture technology: Introduction of sound
  …these developments and formed the Vitaphone Corporation to market the complete system.
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use by Warner Brothers

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  In Warner Brothers: Films of the 1920s and ’30s: The Jazz Singer and gangster dramas
  …patent on a process (Vitaphone) that made the “talkies” possible, revolutionizing the film industry. The studio’s Don Juan (1926) opened with a completely synchronized musical sound track, and The Jazz Singer (1927) was the first film with synchronized dialogue. (Sam died only 24 hours before the latter’s premiere.) Warner…
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use in “The Jazz Singer”

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  In The Jazz Singer
  …bought a sound-on-disc system called Vitaphone and debuted the system in 1926 with Don Juan, a lavish costume drama featuring a score performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. However, The Jazz Singer, the second Vitaphone feature, was the first full feature film to have a sound track that included…
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