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RUSSIA · 1941

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Dziga Vertov
sound film technology film history synchronized sound cinema innovation audio-visual synchronization
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Synopsis

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before sound motion pictures became commercially practical. Reliable synchronization was difficult to achieve with the early sound-on-disc systems, and amplificati

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