History of Sound Motion Pictures

Bibliographic Reference(s)

• Report on the Adaptation of Fine-Grain Films to Variable-Density Sound Technics [Active]
• Improvement in Sound and Picture Release through the Use of Fine-Grain Film [Active]
• Photographic Duping of Variable-Area Sound [Active]
• Book Reviews [Active]
• Equipment for Stereophonic Sound Reproduction—Panel Discussion [Active]
• Improved Equipment for Drive-in Theaters [Active]
• Progress Committee Report [Active]
• Magnetic Sound on 16-Mm Edge-Coated Film [Active]
• Optical Control of Wave-Shape and Amplitude Characteristics in Variable-Density Recording [Active]
• Class B Push-Pull Recording for Original Negatives [Active]
• Review of Work on Dichroic Mirrors and Their Light-Dividing Characteristics [Active]
• Comparison of Recording Processes [Active]
• Synchronous ¼-In. Magnetic Tape for Motion Picture Production [Active]
• Preliminary Report of Research Council Photocell Subcommittee [Active]
• Cross-Modulation Compensator [Active]
• Dual Photomagnetic Intermediate Studio Recording [Active]
• Optimum Exposure of Sound Tracks on Kodachrome Films [Active]
• Densitometry of Silver Sulfide Sound Tracks [Active]
• A Method of Direct-Positive Variable-Density Recording with the Light Valve [Active]
• Sound Track on Eastman Color Print Film [Active]
• Electrical Printing [Active]
• Motion Picture Studio Use of Magnetic Recording [Active]
• Picture-Synchronous Magnetic Tape Recording [Active]
• A Continuous Optical Reduction Sound Printer [Active]
• A Dynamic Check on the Processing of Film for Sound Records [Active]
• The Control Frequency Principle [Active]
• Wave Form Analysis of Variable Density Sound Recording [Active]
• A Shrinkage-Compensating Sound Printer [Active]
• Directional Effects in Continuous Film Processing [Active]
• Radios past and Future [Active]
• Scanning Losses in Reproduction [Active]
• Heat-Transmitting Mirror [Active]
• Push-Pull Direct-Positive Recording—An Auxiliary to Magnetic Recording [Active]
• Sprocketless Synchronous Magnetic Tape [Active]
• Characteristics of Color Film Sound Tracks: A Report of the SMPTE Color Committee [Active]
• A Comparison of Variable-Density and Variable-Width Systems [Active]
• A Non-Slip Sound Printer [Active]
• Optical Reduction Sound Printing [Active]
• An Improved System for Noiseless Recording [Active]
• The Effect of Exposure and Development on the Quality of Variable Width Photographic Sound Recording [Active]
• The Physical Properties and Dimensional Behavior of Motion Picture Film [Active]
• Reproduction of Color Film Sound Records [Active]
• Notes on Operating Experience using the Direct Positive Push-Pull Method of Recording [Active]
• Application of Non-Linear Volume Characteristics to Dialog Recording [Active]
• The Influence of Sprocket Holes upon the Development of Adjacent Sound-Track Areas [Active]
• Improved Resolution in Sound Recording and Printing by the use of Ultraviolet Light [Active]
• Optical Reduction Sound Printer [Active]
• A New Method of Increasing the Volume Range of Talking Motion Pictures [Active]
• Mechanical Reversed-Bias Light-Valve Recording [Active]
• Multichannel Magnetic Film Recording and Reproducing Unit [Active]
• New Principle for Electronic Volume Compression [Active]
• Synchronous Recording on ¼-In. Magnetic Tape [Active]
• Notes on the Application of Fine-Grain Film to 16-Mm Motion Pictures [Active]
• Recent Developments in Sound-Tracks [Active]
• Experiences in Road-Showing Walt Disney's Fantasia [Active]
• The Future of Fantasound [Active]
• A Frequency-Modulated Control-Track for Movietone Prints [Active]
• A New Dichroic Reflector and Its Application to Protocell Monitoring Systems [Active]
• Production and Release Applications of Fine-Grain Films for Variable-Density Sound Recording [Active]
• Laboratory Modification and Procedure in Connection with Fine-Grain Release Printing [Active]
• A Note on the Processing of Eastman 1302 Fine Grain Release Positive in Hollywood [Active]
• Mechanical and Optical Equipment for the Stereophonic Sound-Film System [Active]
• The Stereophonic Sound-Film System—Pre- and Post-Equalization of Compandor Systems [Active]
• Electrical Equipment for the Stereophonic Sound-Film System [Active]
• New and Old Aspects of the Origins of 96-Cycle Distortion [Active]
• Operation of the Variable-Intensity Recording System [Active]
• Speed up your Lens Systems [Active]
• Audience Noise as a Limitation to the Permissible Volume Range of Dialog in Sound Motion Pictures [Active]
• Stereophonic Reproduction from Film [Active]
• The Effects of Ultraviolet Light on Variable-Density Recording and Printing [Active]
• Some Photographic Aspects of Sound Recording [Active]
• Some Characteristics of 16-mm. Sound by Optical Reduction and Re-Recording [Active]
• The History of Nitrocellulose as a Film Base [Active]
• The Trend in Drive-In Theaters [Active]
• Magnetic Recording for the Technician [Active]
• 35-Mm Magnetic Recording System [Active]
• Optimum High-Frequency Bias in Magnetic Recording [Active]
• Variable-Area Recording with the Light Valve [Active]
• Variable-Area Light-Valve Modulator [Active]
• Improved Safety Motion Picture Film Support [Active]
• A Phototube for Dye Image Sound Track [Active]
• Effect of Orientation of the Scanning Image on the Quality of Sound Reproduced from Variable-Width Records [Active]
• The Present Technical Status of 16-mm. Sound-Film [Active]
• Analysis and measurement of distortion in variable-density recording [Active]
• Latest Developments in Variable-Area Processing [Active]
• Volume Compressors for Sound Recording [Active]
• Some Distinctive Properties of Magnetic-Recording Media [Active]
• Wide-Track Optics for Variable-Area Recorders [Active]
• Optical Sound-Track Printing [Active]
• An Analysis of Low-Reflection Coatings as Applied to Glass [Active]
• Recent Developments in the Field of Magnetic Recording [Active]
• Magnetic Sound for Motion Pictures [Active]
• Magnetic Sound Recording on Coated Paper Tape [Active]
• Research Council Basic Sound Committee: Discussion of Magnetic Recording [Active]
• An Improved 200-Mil Push-Pull Density Modulator [Active]
• Factors Governing the Frequency Response of a Variable-Area Film Recording Channel [Active]
• Variable-Area Release from Variable-Density Original Sound Tracks [Active]
• Two New Eastman Fine-Grain Sound Recording Films [Active]
• Du Pont Fine-Grain Sound Films—Types 232 and 236 [Active]
• Preliminary Report of Academy Research Council Committee on Rerecording Methods for 16-Mm Release of 35-Mm Features [Active]
• Fantasound [Active]
• Vitasound [Active]
• Multiple-Speaker Reproducing Systems for Motion Pictures [Active]
• Reduction of Development Sprocket-Hole Modulation [Active]
• Sound Film Printing [Active]
• Wave Form Analysis of Variable Width Sound Records [Active]
• Volume Control by the Squeeze Track [Active]
• The Aperture Effect [Active]
• Recent Laboratory Studies of Optical Reduction Printing [Active]
• The Effect of Developer Agitation on Density Uniformity and Rate of Development [Active]
• Elimination of Relative Spectral Energy Distortion in Electronic Compressors [Active]
• History of Professional Black-and-White Motion-Picture Film [Active]
• Interference Mirrors for Arc Projectors [Active]
• Processing of Ultraviolet Recordings on Panchromatic Films [Active]
• Push-Pull Recording with the Light-Valve [Active]
• An Ultraviolet Push-Pull Recording Optical System for Newsreel Cameras [Active]
• Demonstration of Stereophonic Recording with Motion Pictures [Active]
• Film Perforation and 96-Cycle Frequency Modulation in Sound-Film Records [Active]
• Effect of Uneven Slit Illumination upon Distortion in Several Types of Variable-Width Records [Active]
• Photographic Characteristics of Sound Recording Film [Active]
• Direct-Positive Variable-Area Recording with the Light Valve [Active]
• Portable Magnetic-Recording System [Active]
• High-Quality Recording Electronic Mixer [Active]
• Preselection of Variable-Gain Tubes for Compressors [Active]
• Direct-Positive Variable-Density Recording with the Light Valve [Active]
• Directional Effects in Sound Film Processing—II [Active]
• The Aperture Alignment Effect [Active]
• Synchronized Recordings on Perforated Tape [Active]
• The CinemaScope Optical System [Active]
• Stereophonic Tape Recording Equipment [Active]
• A Device for Direct Reproduction from Variable-Density Sound Negatives [Active]
• Two New Films for Duplicating Work [Active]
• Metallic-Salt Track on Ansco 16-MM Color Film [Active]
• The Motion-Picture Laboratory [Active]
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• 339. Progress Committee Report , Jour. SMPTE , 62 , 338 , May 1954 . EXTERNAL
• 242. Sandvik O. Silberstein G. , “The dependence of the resolving power of a photographic material on the wavelength of light,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. , 17 : 107 , Aug. 1928 . EXTERNAL
• 342. Fine C. Robert , “Perspecta Stereophonic Sound,” paper presented at 75th SMPTE Convention, Washington, D. C., May 1954 . EXTERNAL
• 243. Oswald Carl L. Foster Warren D. , U.S. Pat. 1,928,392, 2,030,760, 2,055,261, 2,213,531. EXTERNAL
• 358. Carpenter G. W. Carlson W. L. , U.S. Pat. 1,640,881, filed Mar. 26, 1921 ; issued Aug. 30, 1927. EXTERNAL
• 359. Camras M. , “Theoretical response from a magnetic wire record,” Proc. IRE and Waves and Electrons , 34 : No. 8 , 597 , Aug. 1946 . EXTERNAL
• 363. Toomin Hershel Wildfeuer David , “The mechanism of supersonic frequencies as applied to magnetic recording,” Proc. IRE , 32 : 664 – 668 , Nov. 1944 . EXTERNAL
• 364. Holmes Lynn C. Clark Donald L. , “Supersonic bias for magnetic recording,” Electronics , 18 : 126 , July 1945 . EXTERNAL
• 370. Progress Committee Report , Jour. SMPTE , 56 : 572 – 573 , May 1951 . EXTERNAL
• 373. Progress Report, Jour. SMPTE , 58 : 400 – 401 , May 1952 . EXTERNAL
• 380. Schmidt Edward , “Commercial experiences with magnastripe,” Jour. SMPTE , 60 : 463 – 469 , Apr. 1953 . Part II. EXTERNAL
• 381. Persoon Andrew H. , “Magnetic striping of photographic film by laminating process,” Jour. SMPTE , 60 : 485 – 490 , Apr. 1953 , Pt. II. EXTERNAL
• 382. Dedell Thomas R. , “Magnetic sound tracks for processed 16-mm motion picture film,” Jour. SMPTE , 60 : 491 – 500 , Apr. 1953 , Pt. II. EXTERNAL
• 383. Kaspin B. L. Roberts A. Jr. Robbins Harry Powers R. L. , “Magnetic striping techniques and characteristics,” Jour. SMPTE , 60 : 470 – 484 , Apr. 1953 , Pt. II. EXTERNAL
• 384. Schmidt Edward Franck Ernest W. , “Manufacture of magnetic recording materials,” Jour. SMPTE , 60 : 453 – 462 , Apr. 1953 , Pt. II. EXTERNAL
• 385. Franck Ernest W. , “A study of dropouts in magnetic film,” Jour. SMPTE , 60 : 507 – 515 , Apr. 1953 , Pt. II. EXTERNAL
• 386. del Valle G. A. Ferber L. W. , “Notes on wear of magnetic heads,” Jour. SMPTE , 60 : 501 – 506 , Apr. 1953 , Pt. II. EXTERNAL
• 387. Bick J. D. , “Methods of measuring surface induction of magnetic tape,” Jour. SMPTE , 60 : 516 – 525 , Apr. 1953 , Pt. II. EXTERNAL
• 388. D'Arcy Ellis W. , “Standardization needs for 16 mm magnetic sound,” Jour. SMPTE , 60 : 526 – 534 , Apr. 1953 , Pt. II. EXTERNAL
• 392. See Appendix. EXTERNAL
• 394. Schubert Paul , The Electric Word, The Rise of Radio ; The MacMillan Co. , New York . 1928 , pp. 108 to 129 . EXTERNAL
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• 397. Langmuir Irving , “The effect of space charge and residual gases on thermionic currents in high vacuum,” Phys. Rev., N.S. Vol. II : Nol 6 , Dec. 1913 . EXTERNAL
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• 400. Just and Hanaman, U.S. Pat. 1,108,502, “Incandescent bodies for electric lamps,” filed 1905 —issued 1912. EXTERNAL
• 401. Coolidge W. D. , “Ductile tungsten,” Trans. AIEE , 29 : Pt. 2, 961 – 965 . EXTERNAL
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• 405. Langmuir Irving , “Nitrogen filled lamps,” Gen. Elec. Rev. , 16 : 688 , 1913 . EXTERNAL
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• 249. Strong J. , “On a method of decreasing reflections from non-metallic substances,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. , vol. 26 , 73 , Jan. 1936 . EXTERNAL
• 253. Cartwright C. H. Turner A. F. , “Multiple films of high reflecting power,” Phys. Rev. , 55 : 595 , June 1939 . EXTERNAL
• 257. Progress Reports, Jour. SMPTE , 56 : 575 May 1951 ; and Jour. SMPTE , 62: 336, May 1954. EXTERNAL
• 234. Bedford A. V. , U.S. Pat. 1,754,187. EXTERNAL
• 266. American Standard, Scanning Beam Uniformity Test Film for 35mm, Jour. SMPE , 51 : 542 – 544 , Nov. 1948 ; and American Standard, Jour. SMPTE , 59: 427–431, Nov. 1952. EXTERNAL
• 285. Progress Report, Jour. SMPE , 48 , 305 , Apr. 1947 . EXTERNAL
• 304. Norwine A. C. , “Devices for controlling amplitude characteristics of telephonic signals,” Bell Sys. Tech. Jour. , 17 : 539 – 554 , Oct. 1938 . EXTERNAL
• 304a. Maxwell D. E. , “Dynamic performance of peak-limiting amplifiers,” Proc. I.R.E. , 35 : 1349 – 1356 , Nov. 1947 . EXTERNAL