List of film sound systems
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Sound systems

year name # of films
2002 12-Track Digital Sound 40
1953 3 Channel Stereo 51
1953 4-Track Stereo 586
1965 6-Track Stereo 89
1963 70 mm
70 mm film
70mm film is a wide high-resolution film gauge, with higher resolution than standard 35mm motion picture film format. As used in camera, the film is wide. For projection, the original 65mm film is printed on film. The additional 5mm are for magnetic strips holding four of the six tracks of sound...

 6-Track
527
1934 Afifa Ton-Kopie 1
1950 AGA Sound System 7
1909 Animatophone 3
1928 Aurofone 1
1943 B.A.F. Sound System 2
1907 Biophone 2
1938 Blue Seal Noiseless Recording 1
1929 Bristolphone 2
2001 Broadway Surround 1
1909 Cameraphone 1
1921 Case
Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and his Singing Duck
Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and his Singing Duck , also known as Gus Visser and His Singing Duck, is an early sound film, directed by Theodore Case while perfecting his variable density sound-on-film process. Case began working on his sound film process at the Case Research Lab in Auburn,...

1
1990 CDS 11
1974 Chace Surround 8
1905 Chronophone (Gaumont) 106
1910 Chronomegaphone 1
1990 Cinema Digital Sound 5
1907 Cinematophone 53
1904 Cineophone 2
1909 Cinephone Lubin 57
1952 Cinerama 7-Track 13
1911 Cinephonograph 1
1949 Cinesound 10
1908 Cinophone 2
1923 De Forest 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...

213
2002 Digitrac Digital Audio System 12
1980 Dolby 12497
1972 Dolby Digital 19652
1999 Dolby Digital EX 288
1992 Dolby SR (Surround) 5865
2010 Dolby Surround 7.1 7
1993 DTS 3735
1996 DTS 70 mm 28
2001 DTS-8 2
1999 DTS-ES 93
1994 DTS-Stereo 137
1996 DX Stereo 3
1940 Fantasound
Fantasound
Fantasound was a stereophonic sound reproduction system developed by the engineers of Walt Disney studios for its 1940 animated film Fantasia, the first commercial film to be released in stereo. Fantasound led to the development of what is known today as surround sound.-Origins:Walt Disney's...

1
1929 Filmtone 2
1998 Full Range Recording System 5
1920 Gaumontphone 1
1898 Hollmann–Eaves 1
1973 IMAX
IMAX
IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of proprietary cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems...

 6-Track
25
1933 International Recording Engineers System 2
1992 Iwerks Digital Audio 5
1894 Kinetophone (Dickson)
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
The Dickson Experimental Sound Film is a film made by William Dickson in late 1894 or early 1895. It is the first known film with live-recorded sound and appears to be the first motion picture made for the Kinetophone, the proto-sound-film system developed by Dickson and Thomas Edison...

7
1889 Kinetophone (Edison) 1
1958 Kinopanorama
Kinopanorama
Kinopanorama is a three-lens, three-film widescreen film format. Although Kinopanorama was initially known as Panorama in the Soviet Union the name was later revised to include its current name prior to the premier screenings in Moscow in 1958. In some countries, including Cuba, Greece, Norway and...

 9-Track
6
1913 Kinoplasticon 12
1956 Klangfilm Magnetocord 3
1954 Klangfilm-Stereocord 3
1990 LC-Concept
L.C. Concept
LC Concept was a 35 mm film projection sound format, developed in France and released in 1991. It used 5.25" 300 megabyte capacity re-writable magneto-optical disks to hold 4 or 5.1 channels of MUSICAM compressed audio. Two disks were used to hold approximately three hours of sound...

 Digital Sound
22
1969 Li-Westrex System 1
1938 Magnaphone Western Electric 3
1962 Magnetocord 1
1988 Matrix Surround 24
1929 Mono 137936
1925 Movietone
Movietone sound system
The Movietone sound system is a sound-on-film method of recording sound for motion pictures that guarantees synchronization between sound and picture. It achieves this by recording the sound as a variable-density optical track on the same strip of film that records the pictures...

20
1938 Optiphone 5
1964 Ortiphone 1
1907 Oskar Messter 1
1949 Perspecta Stereo 58
1933 Phillips Sound 3
1900 Phono-Bio-Taleaux 1
1900 Phono-Cinema-Theatre 7
1921 Phono-Kinema 11
1922 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...

2
1921 Photokinema
Photokinema
Photo-Kinema was a sound-on-disc system for motion pictures invented by Orlando Kellum.-1921 introduction:The system was first used for a small number of short films, mostly made in 1921...

2
1925 Photophone (RCA)
RCA Photophone
RCA Photophone was the trade name given to one of four major competing technologies that emerged in the American film industry in the late 1920s for synchronizing electrically recorded audio to a motion picture image. RCA Photophone was a sound-on-film, "variable-area" film exposure system, in...

3
1914 Polyscope 2
1936 Pulvári System 5
1970 Quadrophonic 3
1975 Quintaphonic 1
1987 Sony Digital Dynamic Sound 2005
1977 Sensurround 13
1992 Servotron Stereo 5
1896 Silent 95017
1985 Sonics 4
1996 Sonics-DDP 47
1994 Sonix 13
1928 Sonora-Bristolphone 1
1997 Sound 360° 2
1992 Sound Trax Surround Stereo 4
1995 Soundelux 1
1965 Spectra-Stereo 2
1972 Stereo 45374
1978 Super Space Sound 1
1929 Synchrotone 2
1939 Synthetic 4
1932 Systemi A. Shorin 2
1940 Système Cottet 3
1933 Tagephone 1
2005 TMH Labs 10.2 Channel Sound 1
1928 Tobis (TOnBIld Syndicat) 80
1922 Tri-Ergon
Tri-Ergon
The Tri-Ergon sound-on-film system was patented from 1919 on by German inventors Josef Engl , Hans Vogt , and Joseph Massolle . The name Tri-Ergon was derived from Greek and means "the work of three." In 1926, William Fox of Fox Film Corporation purchased the U. S...

 Sound System 68 mm
2
1982 Ultra Stereo
Ultra Stereo
Ultra Stereo is a cinematographic sound system that was developed by the year 1984Film Journal International August 1999, p. 34 in competition to the predominant format, Dolby Stereo, by former employees of that company. It is a 4/2/4 photographic sound encoding and decoding procedure that has the...

1007
1938 Variray Blue Seal Recording 3
1935 Visatone 3
1980 Vistasonic 2
1925 Vitagraph 3
1927 Vitaphone
Vitaphone
Vitaphone was a sound film process used on feature films 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...

356
1911 Vivaphone 1
1921 Western Electric
Western Electric
Western Electric Company was an American electrical engineering company, the manufacturing arm of AT&T from 1881 to 1995. It was the scene of a number of technological innovations and also some seminal developments in industrial management...

20
1925 Westrex (Fox & Western Electric) 5
Wicmar and Blue Seal Noiseless Recording 1

Explanation

The year of developing the new technique is not the same as its first performance.
The approximate number of films created using each technique is taken from the Internet Movie Database.
More of talking films have been lost, but referred in newspapers or photographs

Technical questions

Because of different meaning of the words used in English you have to know:
sound-on-cylinder (using Edison technology, see Synchronized sound)
sound-on-disc
Sound-on-disc
The term Sound-on-disc refers to a class of sound film processes using a phonograph or other disc to record or playback sound in sync with a motion picture...

 (using Berliner technology)
sound-on-film (Eric Tigerstedt
Eric Tigerstedt
Eric Magnus Campbell Tigerstedt was one of the most significant inventors in Finland at the beginning of the 20th century, and has been called the "Thomas Edison of Finland"...

's optical, later magnetic sound)


The fist successful technology, the Vitaphone, used 12 inch (300 mm) disc diameter. It was enough only eleven minutes playing time, however the silent film stock (the reel) could run the average of 15 minutes

See also

  • Film score
    Film score
    A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

  • Soundtrack
    Soundtrack
    A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...

  • Sound film
    Sound film
    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 would pass before sound motion pictures were made commercially...

  • 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,...

     consists of an example for optical, magnetic and Dolby sound
  • List of film formats

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