[Jukebox-list] Sound-was-A Christmas Card for Everyone

[Ron Rich]

Hi David,
  Do you know--were the old film rolls only 15 minutes long?  The ones used in the 60's were 20-22 minutes each.--just wondering here--wonder if that's the reason many movies were ( and possibly still are) made without sound during the first few minutes ( usually while the studio's name/logo appears on screen).
  Too bad that my "Unk" is gone--he would have been more then happy to answer those questions a couple of weeks ago----
  I do recall that the TT "ran slow" and the tone arm seamed "real heavy" to me, but like I said, I was very young at that time.
  Ron Rich

David Breneman <david_breneman at yahoo.com> wrote:
  
--- Ron Rich wrote:

> It reminded me of my Uncle, who just passed at the age of 91.
> When I was very young, I used to go to work with him. He worked at
> the Fox Theater in Stockton CA, as the projectionist. I remember
> him showing me how the "sound on film" worked...

Hi, Ron -

They were 16", just like radio transcriptions (in fact
that's where the standard came from). With a needle the
same size used for 78 records, you could record 15 minutes
of sound on a 16" disk at 33-1/3 RPM. That was the 
Vitaphone system. I would love to have seen one of
those projected with the original equipment! Interestingly,
a completely restored version of "The Jazz Singer" has
recently been released on DVD by Warner Home Video.
I haven't seen it yet but I hear it's very good.


David Breneman david_breneman at yahoo.com


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