Motion Picture Sound Recording

Motion Picture Sound Recording The first motion pictures with any kind of sound added to them were shown in Thomas Edison’s laboratory, in West Orange, New Jersey, on 6 Oct 1889. The system, developed by William Kennedy Dickson, used a cylinder synchronization device. Running about 12 seconds, at 46 frames per second, the resulting films included Dickson’s own voice giving a greeting to Edison. That was the forerunner of Edison’s Kinetophone, developed in a 1912 version to the point of making…