Silent Film Sound | Columbia University Press
Silent Film Sound reconsiders all aspects of sound practices during the entire silent film period. Based on extensive origianl reserach and accompanied by gorgeous illustrations, the book challenges the assumptions of earlier histories …
Sound film - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_filmA 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 before sound motion pictures were made commercially practical.
Silent film - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_filmAlthough attempts to create sync-sound motion pictures go back to the Edison lab in 1896, only from the early 1920s were the basic technologies such as vacuum tube amplifiers and high-quality loudspeakers available. The next few years saw a race to design, implement, and market several rival sound-on-disc and sound-on-film sound formats, such as Photokinema (1921), Phonofilm (1923), Vitaphone (1926), Fox Movietone (1927) and RCA Photophone (1928).