Microphone Test #1, Case Sound Tests (c. 1924-1925) [7-film compilation].

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

UNSEEN CINEMA 6: The Amateur as Auteur: Discoving Paradise in Pictures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

1920s.

Local Subjects:

1920s.

Genre:

Documentary

Physical Description:

1 online resource (11 minutes)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Filmmakers Showcase, 1924.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

AMATEUR AS AUTEUR is part of the film retrospective UNSEEN CINEMA that explores long-forgotten American experimental cinema. An engineering graduate of Yale University, Theodore Case assisted Lee de Forest in developing sound-on-film called "Phonofilm." Falling out with de Forest, Case and associate E.I. Sponable then built a laboratory behind Case's family home in Auburn, New York, where they developed their own optical sound film system. Sold to William Fox, it was commercially exploited as "Movietone" with sensational results. -DAVID SHEPARD Theodore Case founded in 1916 the Case Research Lab. A Yale engineering graduate, Case developed sound motion pictures with inventor Lee De Forest, but after a quarrel proceeded independently, eventually mastering sound-on-film. William Fox purchased the Case Research Lab patents and as Fox-Case Corporation ushered in the age of the talkies. -STEPHANIE E. PRZYBYLEK / DAVID SHEPARD TED CASE SOUND TESTS (C. 1924-25) - 7 FILM COMPLIATION 117 00:00 MICROPHONE TEST #1 with Ted Case (1:14 minutes)118 01:47 HARMONICA PLAYER (1:23 minutes) 119 02:37 HARP PLAYER WITH HORN (2:13 minutes)120 04:50 GUS VISER AND HIS SINGING DUCK (1:56 minutes)121 06:46 MICROPHONE TEST #2 close up of Ted Case (1:06 minutes)122 07:52 UKULELE PLAYER "Yes sir that's my baby now" (1:42 minutes)123 09:34 MICROPHONE TEST #3 with Ted Case in tuxedo (34 seconds) 35mm 1.20:1 black and white sound 10:10 minutes. Courtesy Case Research Lab Museum, Cayuga Museum of History and Art, Library of Congress.

Notes:

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