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The First Auto: June 27, 1927 Warner Bros. Synchronized Score Extant Wings [F 3] August 12, 1927 Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation: Synchronized Score Film-only The Bush Leaguer: August 20, 1927 Warner Bros. Synchronized Score Audio-only Slightly Used: September 3, 1927 Warner Bros. Synchronized Score Audio-only [Disc 5 extant] 7th Heaven [F 4]
Many pioneering attempts to record and reproduce sound were made during the latter half of the 19th century – notably Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville 's phonautograph of 1857 – and these efforts culminated in the invention of the phonograph by Thomas Edison in 1877. Digital recording emerged in the late 20th century and has since ...
The 1920s saw a vast expansion of Hollywood film making and worldwide film attendance. Throughout the decade, film production increasingly focused on the feature film rather than the "short" or " two-reeler ." This is a change that had begun with works like the long D. W. Griffith epics of the mid-1910s and became the primary style by the 1920s.
In fact, color was far more prevalent in silent films than in the first few decades of sound films. By the early 1920s, 80 percent of movies could be seen in some sort of color, usually in the form of film tinting or toning or even hand coloring, but also with fairly natural two-color processes such as Kinemacolor and Technicolor. [11]
U2 3D was the first live-action film to be shot, posted, and exhibited entirely in 3D, [123] the first live-action digital 3D film, [124] and the first 3D concert film. [125] Regarding its production, it was the first 3D film shot using a zoom lens , [ 126 ] an aerial camera , [ 127 ] and a multiple-camera setup . [ 124 ]
In Italy, whose once vibrant film industry had become moribund by the late 1920s, the first talkie, La Canzone dell'amore (The Song of Love), also came out in October; within two years, Italian cinema would be enjoying a revival. [93] The first movie spoken in Czech debuted in 1930 as well, Tonka Šibenice (Tonka of the Gallows). [94]
In 1920, there were two major changes to the film industry: the introduction of sound and the creation of studio systems. In the 1920s, talent who had been working independently began joining studios and working with other actors and directors. In 1927, The Jazz Singer was released, bringing sound to the motion picture industry.
In the first decades of the 20th century, movies grew much longer and the medium quickly developed into one of the most important tools of communication and entertainment. The breakthrough of synchronized sound occurred at the end of the 1920s and that of full color motion picture film in the 1930s (although black and white films remained very ...