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'''Movietone''' was an early sound-on-film format in use roughly 1927 through 1933 (not to be confused with the "Fox Movietone News" newsreel brand that continued afterward). | '''Movietone''' was an early sound-on-film format in use roughly 1927 through 1933 (not to be confused with the "Fox Movietone News" newsreel brand that continued afterward). The term is often used by projectionists as shorthand for a family of similar sound-on-film formats from this era. | ||
Modern prints of Movietone films retain the unique characteristics of the format, unlike modern prints of contemporary early sound films that originated with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaphone Vitaphone] sound-on-disc system, which are retrofitted for sound-on-film after the fact and may display cropping and other artifacts. | Modern prints of Movietone films retain the unique characteristics of the format, unlike modern prints of contemporary early sound films that originated with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaphone Vitaphone] sound-on-disc system, which are retrofitted for sound-on-film after the fact and may display cropping and other artifacts. | ||
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Movietone films are sometimes presented with [[List_of_silent_film_accompanists|live musical accompaniment]], despite having soundtracks. This is generally done because some Movietone soundtracks include only music or music and sound effects (without dialogue). Historically, theaters that had not yet upgraded to sound would have shown these films with live accompaniment during their original releases. | Movietone films are sometimes presented with [[List_of_silent_film_accompanists|live musical accompaniment]], despite having soundtracks. This is generally done because some Movietone soundtracks include only music or music and sound effects (without dialogue). Historically, theaters that had not yet upgraded to sound would have shown these films with live accompaniment during their original releases. | ||
==List of films | ==List of early sound-on-film films== | ||
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! Title !! Year !! Director !! Sound | ! Title !! Year !! Director !! Soundtrack content !! Sound format !! Notes | ||
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| ''Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans'' || 1927 || F. W. Murnau || Music and sound effects; intertitles with no sound dialogue || | | ''Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans'' || 1927 || F. W. Murnau || Music and sound effects; intertitles with no sound dialogue || Movietone || Murnau intended the film to play at 100 feet per minute, but must play at 90 feet per minute (24fps) to play the optical track correctly. <ref>"Inside Stuff On Pictures". ''Variety'', [https://archive.org/details/variety88-1927-10/page/n175/mode/2up Oct 19, 1927].</ref> | ||
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| ''7th Heaven'' || 1927 || Frank Borzage || Music and sound effects; intertitles with no sound dialogue || Rereleased with Movietone sound in the same year as the original silent release. | | ''7th Heaven'' || 1927 || Frank Borzage || Music and sound effects; intertitles with no sound dialogue || Movietone || Rereleased with Movietone sound in the same year as the original silent release. | ||
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| ''Street Angel'' || 1928 || Frank Borzage || Music and sound effects; intertitles with no sound dialogue || | | ''Street Angel'' || 1928 || Frank Borzage || Music and sound effects; intertitles with no sound dialogue || Movietone || | ||
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| ''The River Pirate'' || 1928 || William K. Howard || || | | ''The River Pirate'' || 1928 || William K. Howard || || || | ||
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| ''Queen Kelly'' || 1929 || Erich von Stroheim || || | | ''Queen Kelly'' || 1929 || Erich von Stroheim || || || | ||
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| ''City Lights'' || 1931 || Charlie Chaplin || Music and sound effects; intertitles with no sound dialogue || | | ''City Lights'' || 1931 || Charlie Chaplin || Music and sound effects; intertitles with no sound dialogue || || | ||
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| ''Tabu: A Story of the South Seas'' || 1931 || F. W. Murnau || Musical score; intertitles with no sound dialogue || | | ''Tabu: A Story of the South Seas'' || 1931 || F. W. Murnau || Musical score; intertitles with no sound dialogue || || | ||
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| ''M'' || 1931 || Fritz Lang || Full sound || Tobis Klang Film || | |||
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* [[List_of_35mm_features_released_in_1.37_after_1953|List of 35mm features released in 1.37 after 1953]] - Just as Movietone films occupied a fluid place between sound films and talkies in the exhibition environments of the late '20s and '30s, many films of the mid-1950s occupy a fluid place between Academy Ratio and well-defined widescreen aspect ratios. | * [[List_of_35mm_features_released_in_1.37_after_1953|List of 35mm features released in 1.37 after 1953]] - Just as Movietone films occupied a fluid place between sound films and talkies in the exhibition environments of the late '20s and '30s, many films of the mid-1950s occupy a fluid place between Academy Ratio and well-defined widescreen aspect ratios. | ||
==Notes== | |||
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[[Category: Sound]] | [[Category: Sound]] | ||