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Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931. Vitaphone is the last major analog sound-on-disc system and the only one that was widely used and commercially successful.
Warner Bros. was allowed to keep the Vitaphone Corporation, but it had to forfeit its partnership with AT&T, and become just another licensee of the proprietary technology. When Western Electric first developed the Vitaphone system, it also discovered a way to encode sound on the same strip of 35mm film that contained the picture.
…bought a sound-on-disc system called Vitaphone and debuted the system in 1926 with Don Juan, a lavish costume drama featuring a score performed by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. However, The Jazz Singer, the second Vitaphone feature, was the first full feature film to have a sound track that included… Read More
Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931. Vitaphone was the last major analog sound-on-disc system and the only one which was widely used and commercially successful.
Feb 25, 2023 · Vitaphone was a sound film system used by Warner Bros. and First National from 1926 to 1931. It was the last major analog sound-on-disc system, with a separate soundtrack recorded on phonograph records played on a turntable coupled to the projector motor.
Whether Vitaphone’s debut really thrilled the world or not is debatable, but there’s no denying that it revolutionized motion pictures. Vitaphone became synonymous with sound films—whether they actually “talked” or not—and transformed Warner Bros. into one of the most powerful studios in Hollywood.
Vitaphone was originally maintained by Western Electric, one of two organizations which had a complete stranglehold on amplification equipment. In 1925, Warner Bros. purchased Vitaphone from Western Electric, impressed by the familiarity of the sound-on-disc system.
