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This is a list of early pre-recorded sound and part or full talking feature films made in the United States and Europe during the transition from silent film to sound, between 1926 and 1929. [1] During this time a variety of recording systems were used, including sound on film formats such as Movietone and RCA Photophone , as well as sound on ...
The First Auto is a 1927 American synchronized sound drama film directed by Roy Del Ruth about the transition from horses to cars and the rift it causes in one family. While the film has no audible dialog, it was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects, some spoken words, cheering, and laughter, using the Vitaphone sound ...
August 20 – Hallelujah! is the first Hollywood film to contain an entire black cast. August 22 – First in the Walt Disney Productions' animated short Silly Symphony series, The Skeleton Dance, is released. September – Paramount Pictures acquires 49% of CBS. October 24 – Jean Harlow signs a five-year, $100 per week contract with Howard ...
Mobile players for physical media have been provided for vinyl records, 8-track tapes, cassette tapes, compact discs, and MP3s.The increased sophistication of the vehicle audio system to accommodate such media has made the audio unit a common target of car break-ins, so these are equipped with anti-theft systems too.
William Powell Lear (June 26, 1902 – May 14, 1978) was an American inventor and businessman. He is best known for founding Learjet, a manufacturer of business jets.He also invented the battery eliminator for the B battery, and developed the car radio and the 8-track cartridge, an audio tape system. [1]
30 November – Dick Clark (died 2012), American television and radio personality, game show host and businessman, chairman and CEO of Dick Clark Productions. 5 December – Richard Beebe (died 1998), American radio personality and comedian (The Credibility Gap). 28 December – Brian Redhead (died 1994), English radio news presenter.
Intertitle before a 1927 short. Vitaphone Varieties is a series title (represented by a pennant logo on screen) used for all of Warner Bros.', earliest short film "talkies" of the 1920s, initially made using the Vitaphone sound on disc process before a switch to the sound-on-film format early in the 1930s.
1929 radio programme debuts (11 P) D. 1929 radio dramas (2 P) R. Radio stations disestablished in 1929 (4 P) Radio stations established in 1929 (28 P)