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The Introduction of Sound

• 1924 - De Forest’s Phonofilm sound-on-film system.

• 1926 - Warners buys Vitaphone sound-on-disc system

• 1926 - Warners exhibits Don Juan

• 1927 - Warners’ The Jazz Singer earns $3.5 million

• 1927 - Fox uses sound-on-film Movietone system to begin talking newsreels

• 1928 - RCA markets General Electric’s Photophone

• 1929 - 75% of Hollywood films have prerecorded sound

• 1930 - U.S. standardizes on Movietone and Photophone

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