Chronophone
The Chronophone is an apparatus patented by Léon Gaumont in 1902 to synchronise the Cinématographe (Chrono-Bioscope) with a disc Phonograph (Cyclophone) using a "Conductor" or "Switchboard". This sound-on-disc display was used as an experiment from 1902 to 1910. In January 1911, the industrial exploitation started at the Olympia.[1] Chronophone would show Phonoscènes (an early forerunner of music videos) and films parlants ("Talking Films") almost every week from 1911 until 1917 at the Gaumont Palace, "the Greatest Cinema Theatre in the World", previously known as the Paris Hippodrome.
A later version of the Chonophone was known as a Chronomegaphone.
A Chronophone is preserved in the collection of the Musée des Arts et Métiers,[2] another is in the collection of the George Eastman Museum,[3][4] and a Chromomegaphone is owned by Gaumont.
In the United States, the early rival of the Chronophone was the Cameraphone,[5] which included a Graphophone with a type of mechanical sound amplifier known as a Higham-A-Phone reproducer.[6][7][8]
References
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- ^ Letter by Léon Gaumont to Charles Delac, 10 december 1938
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Nuit européenne des musées | musée des Arts et Métiers". www.arts-et-metiers.net (in français). 2016-05-21. Retrieved 2024-04-20.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Elgéphone projector and grammophone, 1908 (projector)".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Elgéphone projector and grammophone, 1908 (audio section)". George Eastman Museaum.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Altman, Rick (2004). Silent Film Sound. Columbia University Press. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-231-11663-3.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Moving Pictures That Talk - Part 4". filmsound.org. Retrieved 2024-04-17.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.The First Power Amplified Talking Machine to market. Retrieved 2024-04-17 – via www.youtube.com.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.DeFeis, Doug (April 1993). "Lights! Cameraphone! Action! - The Early sound movies of Norton, Whitman, & Fitch". Antique Phonograph Monthly. XI -1 (89): 1, 3–11 – via Internet Archive.
External links
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- Phonoscene with an Elephone chronophone.
- The Auxetophone & Other Compressed-Air Gramophones (Museum of Retro Technology) - contains photographs of the audio section of a Gaumont Chronophone
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