The Chronophone is an apparatus patented by Léon Gaumont in 1902 to synchronise the Cinématographe (Chrono-Bioscope) with a disc Phonograph (Cyclophone)...
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with the movie projector, while more recent systems use timecode. The Chronophone (Léon Gaumont) "Filmparlants" and phonoscènes 1902–1910 (experimental)...
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only female filmmaker in the world. She experimented with Gaumont's Chronophone sync-sound system, and with color-tinting, interracial casting, and special...
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Emile Berliner. In 1902, Léon Gaumont demonstrated his sound-on-disc Chronophone, involving an electrical connection he had recently patented, to the...
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Gaumont had built in Flushing, New York in 1908 for the production of Chronophone sound films, a venture which proved unsuccessful for Gaumont. Solax produced...
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chez Maxim's (1933) Félix Mayol at IMDb Phonoscene with an Elephone chronophone (1905), Félix Mayol sings "La polka des trottins" (A. Trébitsch/ H. Christiné)...
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system designed to work with his sound-on-disc talking pictures: the chronophone. The Etablissements Gaumont was founded in 1906 to handle film production...
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Philippines. In 1910, the first picture with sound reached Manila, using the Chronophone. A British film crew also visited the Philippines, and filmed, among...
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discs were synchronised to a motion picture film, and were played on a Chronophone. Vitaphone "talking pictures" – 16-inch discs playing at 331⁄3 rpm provided...
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in 1917. The Phonoscène was a forerunner of sound film. It combined a chronophone sound recording with a chronograph film shot with actors lip-synching...
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1909 Cameraphone 1 1921 Case 1 1990 CDS 11 1974 Chace Surround 8 1905 Chronophone 106 1910 Chronomegaphone 1 1990 Cinema Digital Sound 5 1907 Cinematophone...
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conflagration". Probably, it was either a Chronophone or a Chonomegaphone (an enhanced version of the Chronophone). Both electrically-powered devices were...
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respective devices would be sold by a joint consortium called Gaumont-Messter-Chronophone-Biophon. Messter's Tonbilders sold well while he kept his technical superiority...
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hired by American Gaumont Chronophones, which produced phonoscènes, initially as a singer of songs recorded for the chronophone. Both Herbert Blaché and...
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and 1908, Gaumont also produced a number of sound-disc films known as "Chronophones". One of these – It Was A Nice Quiet Morning (1907) – has survived and...
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Cooper's motion picture career began around 1908 when he helped make Chronophone synchronized sound films for Gaumont which had established a studio in...
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chronic illness of her mother. Léon Gaumont applied for a patent for the Chronophone, his invention for presenting motion pictures with sound, with a projector...
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