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Chapter 10
Vitascope Ad (Library of Congress)
Nickelodeon Plan
Small Nickelodeon (Library of Congress)
"In My Merry Oldsmobile" (Proofs of slide set from Library of Congress)
Those Awful Hats (Biograph, 1909)
Yerkes Sound Effects
Samuel ("Roxy") Rothafel (Library of Congress)
Chapter 11
Dickson Eperimental Sound
Edison Kinetophonograph
Nursery Favorites
Eubie Blake
President Calvin Coolidge
Vitaphone Recording
King of Spain (with variable density sound track)
Lindbergh Flight (Fox Movietone)
Don Juan (Warner Bros., 1926)
Jazz Singer (Warner Bros., 1927)
The Singing Fool (Warner Bros., 1928)
Wild Orchids (MGM, 1929)
City Lights (Charlie Chaplin Productions, 1931)
The Broadway Melody (MGM, 1929)
Dance, Fools, Dance (MGM, 1931)
Queen Christina (MGM, 1933)
Behind Office Doors (RKO, 1931)
Red Dust (MGM, 1932)
Chapter 12
Variable Density Sound Track
You Can't Take It With You (Columbia, 1938)
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (Nero-Film, 1933)
The Broadway Melody (MGM, 1929)
The Big Sleep (Warner Bros, 1946)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Warner Bros, 1938)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (Warner Bros, 1942)
King Kong (RKO, 1933)
Recording Session
One Hundred Men and a Girl (Universal, 1937)
Casablanca (Warner Bros, 1942
Chapter 13
The Big Trail (Fox, 1930)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (PEA, 1966)
The Robe (Twentieth-Century Fox, 1953)
2001: A Space Odyssey (MGM, 1968)
Silk Stockings (MGM, 1957)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Paramount, 1961)
A Hard Day's Night (United Artists, 1964)
The Graduate (Embassy Pictures, 1967)
Chapter 14
Star Wars (Twentieth-Century Fox, 1977)
Jaws (Universal, 1975)
Cineplex Patent
Apocalypse Now (United Artists, 1979)
The Princess Bride (Twentieth-Century Fox, 1987)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Touchstone, 2000)
Forrest Gump (Paramount, 1994)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (20th-Century Fox, 1969)
Saturday Night Fever (Paramount, 1977)
Top Gun (Paramount, 1986): "Danger Zone" (promotional music video)
Lola rennt (X-Filme Creative Pool, 1998)
Chapter 15
The Godfather DVD Menu
THX Trailer
Shakespeare in Love (Miramax, 1998)
Fellowship of the Ring (New Line Cinema, 2001)
Once Upon a Time in America (Ladd, 1984)
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