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Topic: Film music and sound history and facts
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Andy Summers
Master Film Handler
Posts: 397
From: Bournemouth Dorset United kingdom
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 10-08-2005 07:49 AM
Mike’
Cheers, for that, that post only had one useful bit of information that was posted by Mitchel...
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Serious answer, it would have to be some Edison short. Edison was quoted in the late 1890's as having invested resources in motion pictures only so that people could see the people recorded on his phonographs. He produced prototypes of his peep show kintoscopes with sync'd cylinder phonographs, but at the same time projected movies were taking hold, and sound amplification sufficient for theatre use did not exist, delaying the sound for 30 years.
You may want to contact the Edision National Historic Park in West Orange NJ. It is run by the National Park Service, and comprises most of his original labratories. The tour is real interesting if you are ever in NJ.
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The rest was all Loony tune time….well at lest I found something useful, again cheers…
Wasn’t “Thomas Edison” the first pirate after thieving from “Marie-Georges-Jean Méliés” copying his films and making a huge pocket of money, now after my chief projectionist telling me16 years ago how, brilliant the guy was.
Tell you the truth no I don’t like the guy, thieving bustard….
Poor ole “Georges Méliés” made no profit out of this venture, man I really feel sorry for “Georges Méliés” (Edison you should be ashamed…)
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Leo Enticknap
Film God
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Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 10-08-2005 12:33 PM
quote: Andy Summers Chreers for that information there, I’ll pass this on to The College, LRC next week...
At least it's not just my own institution which is incapable of calling a library a library! But if yours is on a spending spree, you could mention this one. I get about 26p in royalties for each copy sold, and every little helps...
quote: ---What was the frequency response please of the “vitaphone” sound system...
A vast improvement on acoustic disc and cylinder recording, but it wouldn't give Ray Dolby a run for his money. I can't remember the figure. If you want that sort of detailed information, the best place to look is one of the many projectionist training manuals which were produced during and shortly after the conversion. Needless to say these are out of print and not easy to get your hands on. For example, James R. Cameron, Motion Pictures With Sound (Manhattan Beach, Cameron Publishing Co., 1929) contains a lot of specs and stats relating to virtually the cinema reproduction systems on the market at that time, Vitaphone included. The last time I was in London I saw a copy in the secondhand section of this bookshop for £40. If your college has an inter-library loans facility it might be worth trying that route.
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