Blumlein Resources - AUDIO

Audio Files Relating to Alan Dower Blumlein

A list of audio resources relating to Alan Blumlein, and people who worked with EMI/Alan Blumlein to record experimental binaural audio.

Audio Files: Scroll down through the list of 39 audio files below until you find one you would like to listen to. To hear the file, click on it and press the play button on the audio player. Files are named, dated (where possible) attributed, and a duration is given.

Audio Files Relating to Alan Dower Blumlein

A brief history of the use of sound in film.

Don Juan (1926): Click on the button below to see the history of the Vitaphone sound-on-record system, first used in the 1926 film Don Juan starring John Barrymore.

The Jazz Singer (1927): Click on the button below to see the history of the sound and voice synchronized to picture, first used in the 1927 film The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson - the first 'Talkie'.

On 27 October 1926, Edward B. Craft, Executive VP of Bell Laboratories, gave a short explanation and demonstration of Warner Brothers' new Vitaphone sound on disk system in the same year that it is first adopted by Warner Brothers in one of their films, Don Juan. Craft takes the viewer to the Vitaphone studios to see an actual musical act being recorded. Off to the side is the technician supervising the creation of the Vitaphone disc, also in a booth which has had one side removed for the purpose of seeing what happens.

When first used on the motion picture Don Juan in 1926, Vitaphone was a completely unknown technological advance, but within months of the release of the film in August 1926, and certainly by the time of the release of the first 'Talkie' with The Jazz Singer in 1927, Vitaphone was a word known and recognised across the world.

Sir Thomas Beecham

Ray Noble

Don Juan (1926)

The Jazz Singer (1927)

DORA MEDIA PRODUCTIONS

Blumlein Resources - AUDIO

Audio Files Relating to Alan Dower Blumlein

Audio Files Relating to Alan Dower Blumlein