[Dixielandjazz] Vitaphone

[Stephen G Barbone]

 From http://www.doctormacro.com/Movie%20Summaries/V/Vitaphone%20Shorts.htm 
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The Vitaphone division of Warner Bros. was established in Brooklyn  
specifically for the production of musical shorts.  The Vitaphone  
process was an early sound format that synched the picture to a  
record.".

Or from Wikipedia -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaphone

Vitaphone was a sound film process used on features and nearly 1,000  
short subjects produced by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First  
National from 1926 to 1930. Vitaphone was the last, but most  
successful, of the sound-on-disc processes. The soundtrack was not  
printed on the actual film, but was issued separately on 12- to 16- 
inch phonograph records. The discs would be played while the film was  
being projected. Many early talkies, such as The Jazz Singer (1927),  
used the Vitaphone process. (The name "Vitaphone" derives from the  
Latin and Greek words, respectively, for "living" and "sound.")

Cheers,
Steve Barbone
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