[78-L] Speaking About Really Early Film Sound Technology -- Read This. Whoa!

[Michael Biel]

From: Michael Shoshani <mshoshani at sbcglobal.net>
>> While you're at it, check out this Max Fleischer Talkartoon from 1930.
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8WKdosZXF4
>> As the title card fades out, an iris opens on a radio speaker
>> and the FIRST THING that comes out of it is the seven note
>> NBC chime from that era.

Do you still have the link I gave you last year for the cartoon that has
the eight note chimes which match the written notations about it but no
recordings had ever turned up?  Martin Grams showed it last year and put
it on a DVD of radio related films.  I need to tell him about this one.

Mike Biel  mbi8el at mbiel.com 

On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 14:09 -0700, Michael Biel wrote:
> I am in the process of sending
> him the several chime strikes from the films and there are definitely
> exactly seven chime strikes on these.