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Identifier: bellvol25telephonemag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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time a theater audience hadheard the natural tones of music andthe human voice from a motion pic-ture screen. There were distinguished guests inWarner Brothers New York theater that night—among them a score ormore of the scientists and engineers ofWestern Electric and Bell TelephoneLaboratories who had labored foryears to perfect the devices whichwere combined in the apparatus aboutto receive its first public demonstra-tion. If some of them were anxious, itwas understandable : the crucial testwas at hand. Then, as the theater lights weredimmed, symphonic music burst fromthe screen while the first of the shortpreliminary features appeared on it:the New York Philharmonic Orches-tra playing the overture from Wag-ners Tannhdiiser. Next came MischaElman, playing Ilumoresque upon hisviolin. Roy Smeck, Marion Talley,Zimbalist, and Bauer performed insuccession. With a full orchestral ac-companiment the noted MetropolitanOpera artist Giovanni Martinelli sang Twenty Years of Talking Movies 83
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The big night: August (5, 1^26. The first public perjorm-ance of the first successful sound motion picture on Broad-way was an events as this crowd indicated the aria from TagViacci. Anna Case,singing in an elaborate Spanish fiestaset, climaxed the prelude. Before the applause could die away,the dramatic sequences of Don Juanunfolded against their synchronizedmusical backgrounci. Scientists, publicofficials, prominent figures from manywalks of life sat in amazement untilthe last crescendo and finale of thisscientific marvel. The men whobrought it into being by their refine-ment of existing arts were hailed ashaving made possible the greatestinvention of the twentieth century.And Dr. Michael I. Pupin was led toexclaim that no closer approach toresurrection has ever been made byscience. The pioneers of WesternElectric and Bell Telephone Labora- tories and their collaborators ofWarner Brothers and Vitaphone ex-perienced that night a measure ofaccomplishment which few men ofscience ever l

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