RCA Photophone was the trade name given to one of four major competing technologies that emerged in the American film industry in the late 1920s for synchronizing...

April 1928, RCA Photophone, Inc., was organized by a group of companies including RCA to develop sound-movie technology. In the fall of 1927, RCA had purchased...

systems were used, including sound on film formats such as Movietone and RCA Photophone, as well as sound on disc formats like Vitaphone for instance. This...

variable-area RCA Photophone and Western Electric's own variable-density process, a substantial improvement on the cross-licensed Movietone. Under RCA's instigation...

the others being DeForest Phonofilm, Warner Brothers' Vitaphone, and RCA Photophone, though Phonofilm was principally an early version of Movietone. As...

pattern, the RCA Photophone PB-17 and PB-31, introduced in 1931. The PB-31 was employed by Radio City Music Hall in 1932. Also in 1931, RCA introduced the...

commercial product by then-GE subsidiary RCA as the 'RCA Photophone'. The first demonstrations of the Photophone, were given in 1926, and in 1927 a sound...

variable-density soundtracks, but the variable-area soundtrack used by RCA Photophone, introduced in 1928, eventually predominated. Although the fidelity...

released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the RCA Photophone sound-on-film process. Featuring the opening and resurrection scenes...

released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the RCA Photophone sound-on-film process. Irene Rich as Carol Theodore Roberts as Ned McCobb...

sound-on-disc systems such as Vitaphone, or later sound-on-film systems such as RCA Photophone or Fox Movietone. The films of de Forest were short films made primarily...

(RCA) in October 1928. RCA executive David Sarnoff engineered the merger to create a market for the company's sound-on-film technology, RCA Photophone...

Jeanette Loff. Made during the early sound era, it was shot using the RCA Photophone sound system. The film survives in an mute print of the alternate sound...

density", in contrast to "variable area" systems used by processes such as RCA Photophone. When the movie film was projected, the recorded information was converted...

Film syndicate in 1930, licensing the system to UFA GmbH as UFA-Klang. RCA Photophone, a variable-area format since the late 1920s—now universally used for...

a Comedy in Three Acts, by Edwin J. Burke. The film was recorded in RCA Photophone and featured a two-color Multicolor sequence. No complete copy survives...

by sound-on-film methods like Fox Movietone, DeForest Phonofilm, and RCA Photophone. The trend convinced the largely reluctant industrialists that "talking...

Also in 1928, Radio Corporation of America (RCA) marketed a new sound system, the RCA Photophone system. RCA offered the rights to its system to the subsidiary...

Britain's earliest "all-talkie" feature films, was recorded in the RCA Photophone sound-on-film process. (The first U.S. all-talking film, Lights of New...

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. Sound-on-film systems such as Movietone and RCA Photophone soon became the standard, and competing sound-on-disc technologies,...

Corporation of America (RCA), led by David Sarnoff, was looking for ways to exploit the cinema sound patents, newly trademarked RCA Photophone, owned by its parent...

along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the RCA Photophone sound-on-film system. The film was released a year after Boardman had...

Forest's Phonofilm, rather than the "variable area" method later used by RCA Photophone. Tri-Ergon used a special form of microphone without mechanical moving...

developed by General Electric researcher Charles A. Hoxie circa 1922. The RCA Photophone sound-on-film system for motion pictures was later derived from it....

Jackson Frank Churchill The first Silly Symphony to be recorded with RCA Photophone. 6:37 34 Birds in the Spring March 13, 1933 David Hand Bert Lewis Frank...

along with English intertitles. The soundtrack was recorded using the RCA Photophone sound-on-film system. Despite the synchronised sound as well as the...

Dr. Harry F. Olson of RCA started developing ribbon microphones using field coils and permanent magnets. The RCA Photophone Type PB-31 was commercially...

sound effects and music, using the General Electric Kinegraphone (later RCA Photophone) sound-on-film process. Wings was an immediate success upon release...

Yak-A-Doola-Hick-A-Doola (1926) (sound) History of animation Sound film Phonofilm RCA Photophone Pointer, Ray (2016) "The Art and Inventions of Max Fleischer: American...

sound-on-film methods such as Fox Movietone, DeForest Phonofilm, and RCA Photophone. The trend convinced the largely reluctant industrialists that "talking...