Charles A. Hoxie (1867–1941) creator of the
pallophotophone at
General Electric
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, and is credited as one of the inventors of
sound film
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before ...
, and as father of the "talking picture".
During his career (1912–32) at General Electric, he devised a
sound-on-film process to put recordings on film.
[''Current Biography 1941'', p. 412]
See also
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Pallophotophone
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History of multitrack recording
Multitrack recording of sound is the process in which sound and other electro-acoustic signals are captured on a recording medium such as magnetic tape, which is divided into two or more audio tracks that run parallel with each other. Becaus ...
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List of film formats
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List of film sound systems
The following is a list of sound film, film sound systems.
Explanation
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History of sound recording
References
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1867 births
1941 deaths
Television pioneers