• Movietone may refer to: Movietone (band), a Bristol-based British music group Movietone News, a company producing cinema newsreels from the 1920s onwards...
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  • Movietone News was a newsreel that ran from 1928 to 1963 in the United States. Under the name British Movietone News, it also ran in the United Kingdom...
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    Movietone is an English post-rock band. They formed in Bristol, England in 1994. Core members are Kate Wright and Rachel Brook, with Wright being the...
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    The Movietone sound system is an optical sound-on-film method of recording sound for motion pictures that guarantees synchronization between sound and...
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    ventured into film production and advertising under his home banner, Irani Movietone. Some of his notable works include Munna Bhai MBBS (2003), Veer-Zaara...
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    develop a method for capturing sound on film eventually becoming the Movietone sound system. In August 1926 the Fox-Case Corporation was created, making...
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  • Movietone Records was a budget records subsidiary of 20th Century Fox's record division, which issued 29 albums starting in 1965 and ending in 1967. Most...
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    Fox Movietone Follies of 1929, also known as Movietone Follies of 1929 and The William Fox Movietone Follies of 1929, is an American black-and-white and...
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  • between September 1943 and April 1946. Originally a newsreel named Indian Movietone News from 1942 to 1943, it was produced in response to the Anglo-centric...
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  • Bollywood movie director, screenwriter, producer and founder of Wadia Movietone Studio. He was born in prominent Parsi family which hailed from Surat...
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  • Sagar Movietone also Sagar Films, Sagar Film Company and Sagar Productions was an Indian film production company involved in the making of films for Indian...
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  • for filmmaking. On July 23, 1926, the company bought the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film. After the Wall Street crash...
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  • Ranjit Studios, also known as Ranjit Movietone, was an Indian film production company with studio facilities located in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It...
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    Wadia Movietone was a noted Indian film production company and studio based in Mumbai, established in 1933 by Wadia brothers J. B. H. Wadia and Homi Wadia...
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  • her acting career on the Urdu stage. Her early films were with Saroj Movietone, where she did a majority of stunt (action) roles. She came into prominence...
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    auditioned and made his debut in the 1939 film Ek Hi Raasta for Sagar Movietone. He went on to act in over 30 films throughout the 1940s and early 1950s...
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    and his friends. He was "picked" by Mehboob Khan whom he met at Sagar Movietone, to sing and act in films as an alternative to the then Calcutta-based...
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    films that made the transition from silent films to sound films using the Movietone sound system introduced by William Fox. The film was completed in August...
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    New Movietone Follies of 1930 is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical film released by Fox Film Corporation, directed by Benjamin Stoloff. The film stars...
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    Poronduwa (The Broken Promise), produced by S. M. Nayagam of Chitra Kala Movietone, heralded the coming of Sri Lankan cinema in 1947. Ranmuthu Duwa (Island...
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    a small budget, it went on to do big business commercially for Sagar Movietone. She acted in, and once again composed music for the film Qazzak Ki Ladki...
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    sound-on-film technology emerged in the 1920s: Phonofilm, Photophone and Movietone. A fourth major contender for the sound film market - Warner Brothers'...
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    was Khoon Ka Khoon (Hamlet) (1935) with Sohrab Modi under whose Minerva Movietone banner she acted for several years. Her high-point came with Modi's Pukar...
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  • action drama Hindi/Urdu film directed by Sohrab Modi. Produced by Minerva Movietone, it had music composed by C. Ramchandra with lyrics by Parwaiz Shamshi...
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  • recording systems were used, including sound on film formats such as Movietone and RCA Photophone, as well as sound on disc formats like Vitaphone for...
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    fascination with the movies. He narrated Twentieth Century Fox's twice weekly Movietone newsreels until 1952, and provided the voice-over for numerous short subject...
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  • known newsreels of the fire, released by Pathé News, Paramount News, Movietone News, Hearst News of the Day/Universal Newsreel, and the fifth is of unknown...
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    Reconstruction video of the bombing of Hiroshima on YouTube Hiroshima – 1945 – Movietone Moment on YouTube The Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima & Nagasaki public domain...
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  • successor to earlier UPI television news film operations United Press Movietone and United Press International Newsfilm. It was at the forefront of international...
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    released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Movietone sound-on-film process. The story was adapted by Carl Mayer from the short...
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