Vitaphone is derived from the Latin and Greek words for living and sound. It was a sound-on-disc system developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories and Western Electric and was a sound film system used for feature films and short subjects made by Warner Bros / First National from 1926 to 1931.
The soundtrack is not printed on the film, but issued separately on phonograph records. The discs are played on a turntable physically coupled to the projector motor while the film is projected.
Many early talkies, such as the 1927 The Jazz Singer used the Vitaphone system.
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