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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 ...
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]
The Locked Door is a 1929 American pre-Code drama film directed by George Fitzmaurice, and starring Rod LaRocque, Barbara Stanwyck, William "Stage" Boyd and Betty Bronson. It is based on the 1919 play The Sign on the Door by Channing Pollock. [1] The play was first adapted for the screen in 1921 as The Sign on the Door, starring Norma Talmadge. [2]
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 ...
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.
Bacon Grabbers (1929) Laurel and Hardy are employed as repossession men for the local sheriff's office. They are given the challenging task of repossessing a radio owned by Collis P. Kennedy, described as a tough customer, who has not paid any installments since 1921. Kennedy first chases Laurel and Hardy off his property with a toy bulldog.
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.