DEFOREST PERFECTS TALKING MOVIES WITH ACTOR'S LINES RECORDED ON FILM
New York City (JFK+50) On April 23, 1922, the Sunday Star reports that the pioneer of the wireless telephone, Lee DeForest*, has perfected "talking movies with the 'lines' recorded on the film instead of on phonograph discs."
Mr. DeForest, arriving here in New York after spending six months working on the experiment in Germany, explains that the human voice is 'photographed' on film at the same time the picture is taken.
*Lee DeForest (1873-1961) was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa & educated at Yale (1899). LD was an early radio pioneer & developed sound-on-film recording for motion pictures. He invented the 1st practical amplification device, the audion vacuum tube.
SOURCE
"New Talking Movie Pictures Voices of Actors Upon Screen," The Sunday Star, April 23, 1922, Washington, D.C., www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
