Talk:Arthur C. Keller

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Mr. Keller was a young engineer at the old Bell Laboratories in Greenwich Village in 1925 when he began to explore the basic relations among sound, hearing and the electrical devices of telephony. One practical application of these efforts was the attempt to add sound to silent pictures by playing synchronized records along with the film. As a result, stars like John Barrymore and Al Jolson could be heard speaking on-screen by 1927.

As a young engineer at the old Bell Laboratories in Greenwich Village in 1925, he began to explore the relations of sound, hearing and the electrical devices of telephony. One practical application of this endeavor was adding sound to silent pictures which was accomplished by playing synchronized records along with the film. As a result, motion pictures had speaking on-screen by 1927.

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