Early Amateur Sound Film (1936–37) | 1936 | ACMI collection

Amateur filmmaker Archie Stewart used an RCA Sound Camera to document family life from 1935. A member of the Amateur Cinema League, in 1937 he published one of the first articles on amateur sound, ‘A Talkie Movie Maker Speaks’, in the league’s magazine.

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1936

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