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   Sound film

   A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades would pass before reliable synchronization was made commercially practical.
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   Sound-on-film

   Fox/Western Electric (Westrex) Movietone, are variable-density formats of sound film.
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   Dickson Experimental Sound Film

   Newly digitized and restored, it is the only surviving Kinetophone film with live-recorded sound. ... Dickson Experimental Sound Film video clip formatted in Apple QuickTime
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   Movietone sound system

   Although sound films today use variable-area tracks, any modern motion picture theater can play a Movietone film without modification to the projector. ... Sound film
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   Film

   When sound film was introduced in the late 1920s, a constant speed was required for the sound head.
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   History of film

   In 1913 a substantial proportion of the dialogue titles that were used in American films were cut in at the point when they were spoken. ... Sound film
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   Silent film

   Although The Jazz Singer's release in 1927 marked the first commercially successful sound film, silent films formed the majority of features produced in both 1927 and 1928.
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   Category:Film sound production

   This topic follows the development of recording sound on motion picture film (sound film).
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   Theodore Case

   Adjacent to the lab is the estate's carriage house where sound-film tests were made on its second floor.
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    Super 8 mm film

    Kodak discontinued the production of Super 8 sound film in 1997, citing environmental regulations as the reason (the adhesive used to bond the magnetic track to the film was environmentally hazardous).

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• Silent film,
• Category:Film sound production,
• Theodore Case,
• Super 8 mm film