Lee De Forest Trailers
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Lee de Forest, (born August 26, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa, U.S.—died June 30, 1961, Hollywood, California), American inventor of the Audion vacuum tube, which made possible live radio broadcasting and became the key component of all radio, telephone, radar, television, and computer systems before the invention of the transistor in 1947. Although de Forest was bitter over the financial exploitation of his inventions by others, he was widely honoured as the “father of radio” and the “grandfather of television.” He was supported strongly but unsuccessfully for the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Most Popular Lee De Forest Trailers
Total trailers found: 18
01 May 1926
Follow the bouncing ball sing-along
01 January 1924
The first presidential film with sound recording.
15 April 1923
Early music video.
05 November 1922
In his career, De Wolf Hopper recited Ernest Lawrence Thayer's "Casey at the Bat" thousands of times.
29 September 1923
Blake plays his "Fantasy on Swanee River" (two takes of same piece, in different styles). The highest notes failed to record in this seminal experiment with synchronized sound.
01 October 1991
For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.
04 May 1923
Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake sing snappy songs.
26 June 1926
A dog gets ready for dinner as the story takes us into a sing-a-long with "My Old Kentucky Home". The first sound cartoon ever produced.
14 April 1923
Early sound film featuring comedian Eddie Cantor.
16 September 1926
British music hall entertainer Dick Henderson sings "I Love Her All the More" and trills out a resounding ode to his beloved in this early sound recording, stopping to aim some rather less romantic jibes at his wife before delivering a rousing encore.
15 April 1923
Vaudeville stars Weber and Fields perform their famous pool hall routine in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
01 June 1926
'Billy Merson, the great Nottingham-born music hall performer, presents one of his signature numbers)
14 April 1923
Spanish dancer Conchita Piquer performs in a short film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
01 January 1923
A dainty combination of music and grace.
01 January 1923
A dainty combination of Music and Grace.
01 January 1923
The first colored talking picture ever made.
01 January 1923
A selection of images (a dog barking, a baby crying, and a musical scene), initially shown in silence, and then repeated with Phonofilm accompanying soundtrack to demonstrate the potential of the technology.
01 January 1923
Short introductory film demonstrating the novel sound-synchronized film technology, the "Phonofilm".
