Movie Trivia

Re: Trivia: First Syncrhonized Sound Movie

MovieGuy — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:53:22 GMT

Although there were many movies prior to The Jazz Singer dating all the way back to the late 1800's, it wasn't until The Jazz Singer in 1927 did we have fully syncrhonized sound. The Vitaphone process was actually used a year earlier on Don Juan, a silent film with a scored background. The Warner studio took Vitaphone a step forward by capturing not only music, but voice too, and sychronizing it to the film in Jazz Singer.

As mentioned in this thread, Singin' in the Rain touched on many of the issues surrounding the implementation of sound in movies. Not only were microphones large and hard to hide, they often picked up the sounds of people on set and the film camera itself.

Re: Trivia: First Syncrhonized Sound Movie

MovieGuy — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 13:50:57 GMT

I love how they incorporate all of that story line in Singin' in the Rain.

Re: Trivia: First Syncrhonized Sound Movie

pippin06 — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 04:06:53 GMT

I'm reasonably certain it was The Jazz Singer.

They make lots of todo about it in Singin' in the Rain! :-)

Trivia: First Syncrhonized Sound Movie

MovieGuy — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 19:50:11 GMT

Since pippin mentioned silent films in her last post, I figured this would be a nice easy question to bring up.

Q: What was the first full-length movie to use synchronized sound?