1913 ~ THE YEAR TALKING MOVIES WERE BORN

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In 1913, inventor Thomas Edison presented a talking movie. Through his own patented, but imperfect process, that combined his two inventions, the phonograph and movie technology.

The process was clumsy and imperfect: essentially a phonograph and movie projector were kept in sync by a cord that connected the two machines. The pictures and the visuals inevitably and (often) fell out of synchronization and had to be clumsily fixed by the projectionist while the thing was running.