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  2. History of sound recording - Wikipedia

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    In 1927, the sound film The Jazz Singer was released; while not the first sound film, it made a tremendous hit and made the public and the film industry realize that sound film was more than a mere novelty. The Jazz Singer used a process called Vitaphone that involved synchronizing the projected film to sound recorded on a disc. It essentially ...

  3. List of cinematic firsts - Wikipedia

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    The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson is the first feature film with recorded dialogue, using the Vitaphone system. [43] Napoleon by Abel Gance is the first film to be filmed in the widescreen format. [44] 1928. Lights of New York, directed by Bryan Foy is the first all talking feature film.

  4. List of motion picture film formats - Wikipedia

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    First known film is the first film (not including tests) made with the format and intended for release. Negative gauge is the film gauge (width) used for the original camera negative. Negative aspect ratio is the image ratio determined by the ratio of the gate dimensions multiplied by the anamorphic power of the camera lenses (1× in the case ...

  5. Musical film - Wikipedia

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    Early Bombay filmmakers combined these Indian musical theatre traditions with the musical film format that emerged from early Hollywood sound films. [12] Other early influences on Bombay filmmakers included Urdu literature and the Arabian Nights. [13] The first Indian sound film, Ardeshir Irani's Alam Ara (1931), was a major commercial success ...

  6. Sound-on-film - Wikipedia

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    Cinema Digital Sound, an optical format which was the first commercial digital sound format, used between 1990 and 1992; Fantasound. This was a system developed by RCA and Disney Studios with a multi-channel soundtrack recorded on a separate strip of film from the picture. It was used for the initial release of Walt Disney's Fantasia (1940)

  7. Sound film - Wikipedia

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    The Chronomégaphone, designed for large halls, employed compressed air to amplify the recorded sound. [1] 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 passed ...

  8. Classical Hollywood cinema - Wikipedia

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    Classical Hollywood cinema. Classical Hollywood cinema is a term used in film criticism to describe both a narrative and visual style of filmmaking that first developed in the 1910s to 1920s during the later years of the silent film era. It then became characteristic of American cinema during the Golden Age of Hollywood, between roughly 1927 ...

  9. History of film - Wikipedia

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    The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century. The advent of film as an artistic medium is not clearly defined. There were earlier cinematographic screenings by others, however, the commercial, public screening of ten Lumière brothers ' short films in ...