Back Vitaphone AST ویتافون AZB Vitaphone Catalan Vitaphone German Vitaphone Spanish ویتافون FA Vitaphone French Vitaphone ID ヴァイタフォン Japanese Витафон KK
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.jpg) Warner Bros. Vitaphone logo | |
| Company type | Subsidiary of Warner Bros. |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1925 |
| Defunct | 1959 |
| Headquarters | United States |
| Products | Motion pictures |
| Parent | Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. |
Vitaphone was a sound film system used for feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects made by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1931. Vitaphone is the last major analog sound-on-disc system and the only one that was widely used and commercially successful. The soundtrack is not printed on the film, but issued separately on phonograph records. The discs, recorded at 33+1⁄3 rpm (a speed first used for this system) and typically 16 inches (41 cm) in diameter, are played on a turntable physically coupled to the projector motor while the film is projected. Its frequency response is 4300 Hz.[1] Many early talkies, such as The Jazz Singer (1927), used the Vitaphone system. The name "Vitaphone" derived from the Latin and Greek words, respectively, for "living" and "sound".
The "Vitaphone" trademark was later associated with cartoons and other short subjects that had optical soundtracks and did not use discs.
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