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unusual facts about Movietone sound system


Movietone sound system

However Fox Movietone News used the system until 1939, because of the ease of transporting this single-system's sound film equipment.


Pilottone

At a time when North-American TV program gathering was dominated by either Movietone (see also Movietone News) or magnetic pre-striping for live-sound recording, and the use of pilottone was still unheard of, according to Diercks the US TV networks were impressed with the system demonstrated by the 60-minute documentary feature.

Van and Schenck

They performed on radio shows and appeared in early talking motion pictures, including several musical shorts—in both Vitaphone and MGM Movietone—and one feature, the MGM film They Learned About Women (1930).


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