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[[File: Gaumont1902.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.3|alt=Illustration of a theater from the rear of the stage. At the front of the stage, a screen hangs. In the foreground is a gramophone with two horns. In the background, a large audience is seated at orchestra level and on several balconies. The words "Chronomégaphone" and "Gaumont" appear at both the bottom of the illustration and, in reverse, at the top of the projection screen.|1908 poster advertising [[Gaumont Film Company|Gaumont]]'s sound films. The [[Chronomégaphone]], designed for large halls, employed compressed air to amplify the recorded sound.<ref>Wierzbicki (2009), p. 74; "Representative Kinematograph Shows" (1907).[http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/auxetophone/auxetoph.htm The Auxetophone and Other Compressed-Air Gramophones] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918210354/http://www.aqpl43.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/COMMS/auxetophone/auxetoph.htm |date=September 18, 2010 }} explains pneumatic amplification and includes several detailed photographs of Gaumont's Elgéphone, which was apparently a slightly later and more elaborate version of the Chronomégaphone.</ref>]]
A '''sound film''' is a [[motion picture]] with [[synchronization|synchronized]] sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a [[silent film]]. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before sound motion pictures became commercially practical. Reliable synchronization was difficult to achieve with the early [[sound-on-disc]] systems, and amplification and recording quality were also inadequate. Innovations in [[sound-on-film]] led to the first commercial screening of [[Short film|short motion pictures]] using the technology, which took place in 1923. The '''sound film''' was also played with oragns or pianos in the actual movie to represent sound.
The primary steps in the commercialization of sound cinema were taken in the mid-to-late 1920s. At first, the sound films which included synchronized dialogue, known as "'''talking pictures'''", or "'''talkies'''", were exclusively shorts. The earliest [[feature film|feature-length]] movies with recorded sound included only music and effects. The first feature film originally presented as a talkie (although it had only limited sound sequences) was ''[[The Jazz Singer]]'', which premiered on October 6, 1927.<ref>[https://jolsonville.net/2013/09/10/the-first-talkie/#more-1016 The first talkie - "The Jazz Singer"], Jolsonville, Oct. 9, 2013</ref> A major hit, it was made with [[Vitaphone]], which was at the time the leading brand of sound-on-disc technology. Sound-on-film, however, would soon become the standard for talking pictures.
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