Production Reel No. 4939-4 Vitaphone record

United States, c. 1930

ACMI Collection

Object
Photograph by Egmont Contreras, ACMI.

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 was the last major analog sound-on-disc system and the only one which was widely used and commercially successful.

On display until:

ACMI: Gallery 1

10 February 2022

Credits

production company

Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation

Production places
United States
Production dates
c. 1930

Appears in

Group of items

Vitaphone discs

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

180868

Curatorial section

The Story of the Moving Image → Moving Pictures → 05. Sound and Colour → MI-05-C02

Measurements

410mm

Materials

Vinyl, Paper sleeves

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