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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
14 March – Bob Grant (died 2013), American conservative talk radio host. 27 April – Derek Chinnery (died 2015), British radio controller. 20 August – Tom Clay (died 1995), American radio personality and disc jockey. 25 September – Ronnie Barker (died 2015), English comic actor. 25 November – Tim Gudgin (died 2017), English sports ...
1922: J. McWilliams Stone invents the first portable radio receiver. George Frost builds the first "car radio" in his Ford Model T. 1923 The 15-year-old Manfred von Ardenne is granted his first patent for an electron tube having a plurality of electrodes. Siegmund Loewe (1885–1962) builds with the tube his first radio receiver "Loewe Opta-".
Chrysler and Philco announced that they had developed and produced the world's first all-transistor car radio and it was announced in the April 28, 1955, edition of the Wall Street Journal. [27] Chrysler made the all-transistor car radio, Mopar model 914HR, available in Fall 1955 for its new line of 1956 Chrysler and Imperial cars, as a $150 ...
In 1929 a new screen grid tube called UY-224 was introduced, an amplifier designed to operate directly on alternating current. [57] A problem with the early radios was fading stations and fluctuating volume. The invention of the superheterodyne receiver solved this problem, and the first radios with a heterodyne radio receiver went for sale in ...
His family moved to Modesto, California, in 1929, where he grew up. [2] He was first exposed to cars when his older brother, Glenn, opened a wrecking yard. [2] In 1942, he bought his first car for $75, a 1928 Ford coupé, and promptly added a radio antenna with foxtail, despite it having no radio. [2]