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Chronophone

The Chronophone is an apparatus patented by Léon Gaumont in 1902 to synchronise the Cinématographe (Chrono-Bioscope) with a disc Phonograph (Cyclophone)

Chronophone

Alice Guy-Blaché

French film director (1873–1968)

last was Tarnished Reputations (1920). She experimented with Gaumont's Chronophone sync-sound system, and with color-tinting, interracial casting, and special

Alice Guy-Blaché

Alice_Guy-Blaché

Sound-on-disc

Early type of sound film installation

with the movie projector, while more recent systems use timecodes. The Chronophone (Léon Gaumont) "Filmparlants" and phonoscènes 1902–1910 (experimental)

Sound-on-disc

Félix Mayol

French singer and entertainer (1872–1941)

20th century some of Mayol's performances were captured on the Gaumont Chronophone sound film system. He would first record his voice, then the motion picture

Félix Mayol

Félix_Mayol

Solax Studios

American motion-picture studio

Gaumont had built in Flushing, New York, in 1908 for the production of Chronophone sound films, a venture which proved unsuccessful for Gaumont. Solax produced

Solax Studios

Solax_Studios

Sound film

Motion picture with synchronized sound

Emile Berliner. In 1902, Léon Gaumont demonstrated his sound-on-disc Chronophone, involving an electrical connection he had recently patented, to the

Sound film

Sound_film

Phonoscène

Early version of sound film

in 1917. The Phonoscène was a forerunner of sound film. It combined a chronophone sound recording with a chronograph film shot with actors lip-synching

Phonoscène

Gaumont

French film studio

succeeded in making sound films as early as 1902 with his invention, the chronophone, which Alice Guy used extensively by shooting hundreds of phonoscenes

Gaumont

Léon Gaumont

French inventor, engineer and industrialist (1864–1946)

system designed to work with his sound-on-disc talking pictures: the chronophone. The Etablissements Gaumont was founded in 1906 to handle film production

Léon Gaumont

Léon_Gaumont

Lois Weber

American actress and film director (1879-1939)

hired by American Gaumont Chronophones, which produced phonoscènes, initially as a singer of songs recorded for the chronophone. Both Herbert Blaché and

Lois Weber

Lois_Weber

List of film sound systems

"Silent Era : Information". www.silentera.com. Retrieved 2026-04-28. "Chronophone". www.imdb.com. Retrieved 2026-05-03. "Cinematophone". www.imdb.com.

List of film sound systems

List_of_film_sound_systems

Cinema of the Philippines

Philippines. In 1910, the first picture with sound reached Manila, using the Chronophone. A British film crew also visited the Philippines, and filmed, among

Cinema of the Philippines

Cinema_of_the_Philippines

Unusual types of gramophone records

Gramophone records with non standard features

discs were synchronised to a motion picture film, and were played on a Chronophone. Vitaphone "talking pictures" – 16-inch discs playing at 331⁄3 rpm provided

Unusual types of gramophone records

Unusual_types_of_gramophone_records

Canbelego

Town in New South Wales, Australia

conflagration". Probably, it was either a Chronophone or a Chonomegaphone (an enhanced version of the Chronophone). Both electrically powered devices were

Canbelego

Claude Cooper (actor)

English-American actor

Cooper's motion picture career began around 1908 when he helped make Chronophone synchronized sound films for Gaumont which had established a studio in

Claude Cooper (actor)

Claude_Cooper_(actor)

Oskar Messter

German cinema pioneer

respective devices would be sold by a joint consortium called Gaumont-Messter-Chronophone-Biophon. Messter's Tonbilders sold well while he kept his technical superiority

Oskar Messter

Oskar_Messter

Alf Collins

British actor (1866–1951)

and 1908, Gaumont also produced a number of sound-disc films known as "Chronophones". One of these – It Was A Nice Quiet Morning (1907) – has survived and

Alf Collins

Alf_Collins

July 1901

Month in 1901

chronic illness of her mother. Léon Gaumont applied for a patent for the Chronophone, his invention for presenting motion pictures with sound, with a projector

July 1901