Among Earliest Sound-On-Film RecordingsDiscovered!

[LanceM]

This is a bit of an dated article.However, is a fascinating read of some very interesting footage which has only recently come to light so to speak.Just goes to show,you never know what may be out there!

Am very interested to hear in regards to this discovery!

www.movingimagearchivenews.org/detecting-the-history-of-sound-on-film/

Cheers,Lance.

[Rob Hutchinson]

yes I'd read this before.

tbh I find anything about lost film quite fascinating. perhaps we should have a thread dedicated to things discovered that are not UK tv related, just to raise the spirits and confirm there is still a chance as long as lost stuff keeps turning up!

[RWels]

There is also a group of enthusiasts who seek to bring back together movies and their sound discs from the 20s sound-on-disc era. Picture and sound are then remarried with the help of warner bros. and the library of congres. Discs with lost soundtracks still turn up and sometimes films too. In fact, the discs usually carry better audio quality than the optical audio tracks of that time. Site: www.picking.com/vitaphone.html

[Robert Belford]

I was watching the mid-1990's BBC series Cinema Europe recently and there is a good pre-1920 sound-on-disc clip in that.

[felixdembinski]

i thought sound only came about in the late 20s/early 30s.

[Dan S]

Dec 14, 2010 13:00:28 GMT LanceM said:

www.movingimagearchivenews.org/detecting-the-history-of-sound-on-film/

On that page there's a link to another page where it claims the little bit of sound film can be viewed, but the page has 135 videos on it. Has anyone worked out which one it is?

[Jacinta Brull]

Jan 1, 2011 14:29:07 GMT felixdembinski said:

i thought sound only came about in the late 20s/early 30s.

The Jazz Singer in 1927!

[RWels]

Actually, Don Juan from 1926 was the first film that had synchronized sound. Just not speech, only sound effects.

[Robert Belford]

@r Wels - the Wikipedia page contradicts that. It states that the "first commercial screening of motion pictures with sound-on-film" was in 1923.

Anyway it depends what the definition of synchronized sound is. Any sound that happens to run in time with a picture can be said to be synchronized and there were disc and even cylinder system that worked in sync at least some of the time. The clip in the Cinema Europe programme which I mentioned was from pre-1920 and the sound was in sync on that.