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Thomas Edison invented the phonograph, which was a device that is used to record or capture sound using cylinders and reproduce that sound. This revolutionised the music industry, but Edison wanted sound to go with images.

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Invention of the First Motion Capture Camera or Kinetograph (1892)

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Invention of the First Motion Capture Camera or Kinetograph (1892)

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Since Thomas Edison wanted to have both audio and image be put together for film, he created the Kinetograph, which captured movement and images which could then be viewed by using a Kinectoscope. He then started drawing up plans for sound and images coming together and creating a film.

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Abandoning of Sound Motion Pictures project by Thomas Edison (1915)

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Abandoning of Sound Motion Pictures project by Thomas Edison (1915)

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Since sound and image went at different speeds, Edison didn't really find a way to add them together, therefore the project was abandoned.

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Warner Brothers created Don Juan which was a film that had synchronized music with images or visuals in order to make it a film with sound. This is one of the first films that used a sound editor in it's post production phase in making the movie.

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The Jazz Singer Recorded Dialogue on Set (1927)

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The Jazz Singer Recorded Dialogue on Set (1927)

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Dialogue was recorded on set for this movie. Eventhough the dialogue was said in small portions, the film was quite revolutionary and instantly a hit during the time of it's release. These types of movies were called 'talkies' which boosted the film industry.

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Film production companies started  realising that not only dialogue is important in a movie, but sound effects are too. This is when the role of a sound editor started to become a role in the production phase of a film.

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Murray Spivack, who was the sound editor in this movie, had to get very creative for the sounds of King Kong because those types of sounds didn't exist in real life because King Kong was a fictional character. For King Kong's voice, he experimented with the audio tapes and made a unique sound which was used for King Kong.

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In this type of film, only sound was used, there would usually be a narrator using a lot of imagery to describe the setting, the characters and the story. There would be voice overs and sound effects in these types of films.

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The invention of the Cinerama was quite a big step in film and sound as it had a surround sound system which gave the sound around the whole theatre. There were 5 speakers that have out sound which were situated at the back of the screen.

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Ray Dolby invented Dolby A which was a noice reduction system, it was widely accepted in studios and became quite popular.

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This movie's soundtrack was almost identical to the movie, 'Gone With The Wind' which was released in 1939, because both of them were mono films where there would be only one speaker which would give sound, this is situated behind the screen.

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Since the music industry was experimenting all this new technology that Dolby was creating. Dolby decided to expand their technology to film by providing more stereo sound in theatres for the sole cause of enhancing sound in films.

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Barbara Streisand added stereo sound to this movie. It gave the audience the feeling of being part of the concert, this you could only feel from a stereo sound system and not a mono sound system.

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The invention of Dolby SR got many studios to use it, due to it's improved noise reduction, audio recordings's quality was much better.

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The first ever movie that adopted this sound system was Batman Returns. It has 6 discrete speakers or channels of sound. It created 5.1 sound.

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Sony improved the 5.1 sound to 7.1 surround sound. This was very better than the original Cinerama and improved sound in film overall.

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Al Jolson "The Jazz Singer."

Al Pacino and 'The Godfather'.

Biography. www.biography.com/inventor/thomas-edison.

Dolby Noise-Reduction System.

Don Juan.

A Force To Be Reckoned With.

K-L 500 Radio.

Sound Fountain.
www.soundfountain.com/mercury/trinaural.html.

A Star Is Born. Digital file.

3 Microphone Placement.

We Can't Escape 'King Kong'.

Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby_noise-reduction_system.

Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Dynami
c_Digital_Sound#/media/File:SDDS

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Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinerama#S
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