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Kinetophone

cinematic sound system

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history of motion pictures

  • The Passion of Joan of Arc
    In history of film: Introduction of sound

    …Thomas Edison had commissioned the Kinetograph to provide visual images for his phonograph, and William Dickson had actually synchronized the two machines in a device briefly marketed in the 1890s as the Kinetophone. Léon Gaumont’s Chronophone in France and Cecil Hepworth’s Vivaphone system in England employed a similar technology, and…

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