@MrLlunker By Gerald Mast and Bruce Kawin. I was unable to post a link to Amazon so --i think you can find it just fine. If you decide to buy it that is a good little textbook over the History of Film and the Sound-on-Disc Era.
Which was one of our text books for that year i studied it. The Section of the book in which it talks about Vitaphone and Western Electric about sound-on-disc and yes it has the hyphens --talks specifically about starting with 78rpm. It was like $70used at HSU(Hardin Simmons University) which is where i received my BA. Hope that helps with the Proof.
I am not going to get into a match with you, but you will not find a single example of a western electric/Vitaphone disc being played back at 78rpm. i don't even know the book you are referring to but perhaps you are thinking of earlier experiments such as Kellum did with Dream Street (1921) or others, but you are providing misleading information. Please cite some actual proof or references for your claims, since i can provide a list of primary documents stating 33 1/3 was the speed.
No it was actually 78rpm is how it originated. I do not mean to argue with you but since i do have a BA in Film and Video - i went back to one of my Textbooks(Survey of American Film) and looked this up and it was actually 78rpm. Although the modern era of sound started with 33 1/3 rpm - 78 was decided upon for Sound-on-Disc. Hope that explains it a little better
Excellent Video--Sound on Disc was actually announced and invented by Western Electric and sound was recorded on Vinyl which was a 78rpm turntable. It had a tone arm on the side --the only problem was that it would fall out of sync with the movie at times and therefore was an unreliable source of sound with film. It wasn't until Dr. Lee Deforest came up with "the audion tube" and Sound-on-film was born!!
I agree with aytab... 78 RPM, even used with a 16-inch disc, would still have too short a playing time.
Also, many broadcast transcription discs used by NBC and CBS were recorded at 33-and-a-third.
I know the Gerald Mast book that MrLunker cites... but is it possible that Mr. Mast simply has his facts wrong?
muybridge54 3 months ago
oops forgot to get that first part in there --it was called A short history of the Movies.
MrLlunker 8 months ago
@MrLlunker By Gerald Mast and Bruce Kawin. I was unable to post a link to Amazon so --i think you can find it just fine. If you decide to buy it that is a good little textbook over the History of Film and the Sound-on-Disc Era.
MrLlunker 8 months ago
Which was one of our text books for that year i studied it. The Section of the book in which it talks about Vitaphone and Western Electric about sound-on-disc and yes it has the hyphens --talks specifically about starting with 78rpm. It was like $70used at HSU(Hardin Simmons University) which is where i received my BA. Hope that helps with the Proof.
MrLlunker 8 months ago
I am not going to get into a match with you, but you will not find a single example of a western electric/Vitaphone disc being played back at 78rpm. i don't even know the book you are referring to but perhaps you are thinking of earlier experiments such as Kellum did with Dream Street (1921) or others, but you are providing misleading information. Please cite some actual proof or references for your claims, since i can provide a list of primary documents stating 33 1/3 was the speed.
aytab 8 months ago
No it was actually 78rpm is how it originated. I do not mean to argue with you but since i do have a BA in Film and Video - i went back to one of my Textbooks(Survey of American Film) and looked this up and it was actually 78rpm. Although the modern era of sound started with 33 1/3 rpm - 78 was decided upon for Sound-on-Disc. Hope that explains it a little better
MrLlunker 8 months ago
Excellent Video--Sound on Disc was actually announced and invented by Western Electric and sound was recorded on Vinyl which was a 78rpm turntable. It had a tone arm on the side --the only problem was that it would fall out of sync with the movie at times and therefore was an unreliable source of sound with film. It wasn't until Dr. Lee Deforest came up with "the audion tube" and Sound-on-film was born!!
MrLlunker 9 months ago
@MrLlunker it was actually 33 1/3 rpm, which is where the speed originated..
aytab 8 months ago
Absolutely great!!! Piece of history.
AntonyGH 10 months ago