Sound film
Cine sonoro
- Date
- 1926–1927 · confidence high
- Place
- Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States
- Credited to
- Warner Bros. and Western Electric (Vitaphone, The Jazz Singer, 1927); Lee De Forest (Phonofilm, 1923); Tri-Ergon (Berlin, 1919); Theodore Case (Movietone)
- People
- 👤 Lee De Forest1873–1961👤 Theodore Case
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Synchronisation of sound and image, first on disc (Vitaphone) and then optically on the film itself. It transformed silent cinema into the dominant audiovisual medium.
What it led to
- Stardom based on voice and the end of silent-film careers
- Musicals and cinema in national languages
- Hollywood's dominance and dubbing
Built on
Made possible
- Musical film
- Dubbing
- Stereo optical soundtrack