A Musical Monologue
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A Musical Monologue is a short film produced by Lee De Forest
in his Phonofilm
sound-on-film
process. The film features Phil Baker, well-known vaudevillian, singing and playing the accordion. This film premiered with 17 other short Phonofilms on 15 April 1923 at the Rivoli Theater
in New York City
.
Lee De Forest
Lee De Forest was an American inventor with over 180 patents to his credit. De Forest invented the Audion, a vacuum tube that takes relatively weak electrical signals and amplifies them. De Forest is one of the fathers of the "electronic age", as the Audion helped to usher in the widespread use...
in his Phonofilm
Phonofilm
In 1919, Lee De Forest, inventor of the audion tube, filed his first patent on a sound-on-film process, DeForest Phonofilm, which recorded sound directly onto film as parallel lines. These parallel lines photographically recorded electrical waveforms from a microphone, which were translated back...
sound-on-film
Sound-on-film
Sound-on-film refers to a class of sound film processes where the sound accompanying picture is physically recorded onto photographic film, usually, but not always, the same strip of film carrying the picture. Sound-on-film processes can either record an analog sound track or digital sound track,...
process. The film features Phil Baker, well-known vaudevillian, singing and playing the accordion. This film premiered with 17 other short Phonofilms on 15 April 1923 at the Rivoli Theater
Rivoli Theatre (South Fallsburg, New York)
The Rivoli Theatre in South Fallsburg, New York, United States is located at the intersection of NY 42 and Laurel Avenue. It was built in 1923, renovated in the late 1930s and remains almost intact from that period....
in New York City
New York City
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