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Video Parts (3)

This clip is Part 1 of a 3-part film.

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FINDING HIS VOICE Part 1

Description

An animated cartoon designed to demonstrate and explain "talking" movies. A strip of sound film takes a strip of silent film to a laboratory and has a sound track printed on it. Explains how sound waves are converted to electrical impulses that are printed on a film by varying the density of a light beam and how these impulses are amplified when a sound picture is projected.

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Collection

Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Collection

Series

Motion Picture Films

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Date
1926–1941
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3:36