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The Story of Lee DeForest’s Phonofilm sound film technology. (c) Inkwell Images

The Fox Movietone newsreel used a sound-on-film technology developed by Theodore Case & Earl Sponakle. In 1927 they documented the roar of Lindberg’s plane leaving New York for Paris.

Kristin Thompson on the use of sound in Fritz Lang’s 1930 master piece M. 

A few months after its movie premiere, Wuthering Heights was broadcast as an episode of Lux Radio Theatre.