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Sound systems

year	name	# of films
2002	12-Track Digital Sound	40
1953	3 Channel Stereo	51
1953	4-Track Stereo	586
1965	6-Track Stereo	89
1963	70 mm 70 mm film 70mm film is a wide high-resolution film gauge, with higher resolution than standard 35mm motion picture film format. As used in camera, the film is wide. For projection, the original 65mm film is printed on film. The additional 5mm are for magnetic strips holding four of the six tracks of sound... 6-Track	527
1934	Afifa Ton-Kopie	1
1950	AGA Sound System	7
1909	Animatophone	3
1928	Aurofone	1
1943	B.A.F. Sound System	2
1907	Biophone	2
1938	Blue Seal Noiseless Recording	1
1929	Bristolphone	2
2001	Broadway Surround	1
1909	Cameraphone	1
1921	Case Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and his Singing Duck Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and his Singing Duck , also known as Gus Visser and His Singing Duck, is an early sound film, directed by Theodore Case while perfecting his variable density sound-on-film process. Case began working on his sound film process at the Case Research Lab in Auburn,...	1
1990	CDS	11
1974	Chace Surround	8
1905	Chronophone (Gaumont)	106
1910	Chronomegaphone	1
1990	Cinema Digital Sound	5
1907	Cinematophone	53
1904	Cineophone	2
1909	Cinephone Lubin	57
1952	Cinerama 7-Track	13
1911	Cinephonograph	1
1949	Cinesound	10
1908	Cinophone	2
1923	De Forest Phonofilm Phonofilm In 1919, Lee De Forest, inventor of the audion tube, filed his first patent on a sound-on-film process, DeForest Phonofilm, which recorded sound directly onto film as parallel lines. These parallel lines photographically recorded electrical waveforms from a microphone, which were translated back...	213
2002	Digitrac Digital Audio System	12
1980	Dolby	12497
1972	Dolby Digital	19652
1999	Dolby Digital EX	288
1992	Dolby SR (Surround)	5865
2010	Dolby Surround 7.1	7
1993	DTS	3735
1996	DTS 70 mm	28
2001	DTS-8	2
1999	DTS-ES	93
1994	DTS-Stereo	137
1996	DX Stereo	3
1940	Fantasound Fantasound Fantasound was a stereophonic sound reproduction system developed by the engineers of Walt Disney studios for its 1940 animated film Fantasia, the first commercial film to be released in stereo. Fantasound led to the development of what is known today as surround sound.-Origins:Walt Disney's...	1
1929	Filmtone	2
1998	Full Range Recording System	5
1920	Gaumontphone	1
1898	Hollmann–Eaves	1
1973	IMAX IMAX IMAX is a motion picture film format and a set of proprietary cinema projection standards created by the Canadian company IMAX Corporation. IMAX has the capacity to record and display images of far greater size and resolution than conventional film systems... 6-Track	25
1933	International Recording Engineers System	2
1992	Iwerks Digital Audio	5
1894	Kinetophone (Dickson) Dickson Experimental Sound Film The Dickson Experimental Sound Film is a film made by William Dickson in late 1894 or early 1895. It is the first known film with live-recorded sound and appears to be the first motion picture made for the Kinetophone, the proto-sound-film system developed by Dickson and Thomas Edison...	7
1889	Kinetophone (Edison)	1
1958	Kinopanorama Kinopanorama Kinopanorama is a three-lens, three-film widescreen film format. Although Kinopanorama was initially known as Panorama in the Soviet Union the name was later revised to include its current name prior to the premier screenings in Moscow in 1958. In some countries, including Cuba, Greece, Norway and... 9-Track	6
1913	Kinoplasticon	12
1956	Klangfilm Magnetocord	3
1954	Klangfilm-Stereocord	3
1990	LC-Concept L.C. Concept LC Concept was a 35 mm film projection sound format, developed in France and released in 1991. It used 5.25" 300 megabyte capacity re-writable magneto-optical disks to hold 4 or 5.1 channels of MUSICAM compressed audio. Two disks were used to hold approximately three hours of sound... Digital Sound	22
1969	Li-Westrex System	1
1938	Magnaphone Western Electric	3
1962	Magnetocord	1
1988	Matrix Surround	24
1929	Mono	137936
1925	Movietone Movietone sound system The Movietone sound system is a sound-on-film method of recording sound for motion pictures that guarantees synchronization between sound and picture. It achieves this by recording the sound as a variable-density optical track on the same strip of film that records the pictures...	20
1938	Optiphone	5
1964	Ortiphone	1
1907	Oskar Messter	1
1949	Perspecta Stereo	58
1933	Phillips Sound	3
1900	Phono-Bio-Taleaux	1
1900	Phono-Cinema-Theatre	7
1921	Phono-Kinema	11
1922	Phonofilm Phonofilm In 1919, Lee De Forest, inventor of the audion tube, filed his first patent on a sound-on-film process, DeForest Phonofilm, which recorded sound directly onto film as parallel lines. These parallel lines photographically recorded electrical waveforms from a microphone, which were translated back...	2
1921	Photokinema Photokinema Photo-Kinema was a sound-on-disc system for motion pictures invented by Orlando Kellum.-1921 introduction:The system was first used for a small number of short films, mostly made in 1921...	2
1925	Photophone (RCA) RCA Photophone RCA Photophone was the trade name given to one of four major competing technologies that emerged in the American film industry in the late 1920s for synchronizing electrically recorded audio to a motion picture image. RCA Photophone was a sound-on-film, "variable-area" film exposure system, in...	3
1914	Polyscope	2
1936	Pulvári System	5
1970	Quadrophonic	3
1975	Quintaphonic	1
1987	Sony Digital Dynamic Sound	2005
1977	Sensurround	13
1992	Servotron Stereo	5
1896	Silent	95017
1985	Sonics	4
1996	Sonics-DDP	47
1994	Sonix	13
1928	Sonora-Bristolphone	1
1997	Sound 360°	2
1992	Sound Trax Surround Stereo	4
1995	Soundelux	1
1965	Spectra-Stereo	2
1972	Stereo	45374
1978	Super Space Sound	1
1929	Synchrotone	2
1939	Synthetic	4
1932	Systemi A. Shorin	2
1940	Système Cottet	3
1933	Tagephone	1
2005	TMH Labs 10.2 Channel Sound	1
1928	Tobis (TOnBIld Syndicat)	80
1922	Tri-Ergon Tri-Ergon The Tri-Ergon sound-on-film system was patented from 1919 on by German inventors Josef Engl , Hans Vogt , and Joseph Massolle . The name Tri-Ergon was derived from Greek and means "the work of three." In 1926, William Fox of Fox Film Corporation purchased the U. S... Sound System 68 mm	2
1982	Ultra Stereo Ultra Stereo Ultra Stereo is a cinematographic sound system that was developed by the year 1984Film Journal International August 1999, p. 34 in competition to the predominant format, Dolby Stereo, by former employees of that company. It is a 4/2/4 photographic sound encoding and decoding procedure that has the...	1007
1938	Variray Blue Seal Recording	3
1935	Visatone	3
1980	Vistasonic	2
1925	Vitagraph	3
1927	Vitaphone Vitaphone Vitaphone was a sound film process used on feature films and nearly 1,000 short subjects produced by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1930. Vitaphone was the last, but most successful, of the sound-on-disc processes...	356
1911	Vivaphone	1
1921	Western Electric Western Electric Western Electric Company was an American electrical engineering company, the manufacturing arm of AT&T from 1881 to 1995. It was the scene of a number of technological innovations and also some seminal developments in industrial management...	20
1925	Westrex (Fox & Western Electric)	5
	Wicmar and Blue Seal Noiseless Recording	1

Explanation

The year of developing the new technique is not the same as its first performance.

The approximate number of films created using each technique is taken from the Internet Movie Database.

More of talking films have been lost, but referred in newspapers or photographs

Technical questions

Because of different meaning of the words used in English you have to know:

sound-on-cylinder (using Edison technology, see Synchronized sound)

sound-on-disc

Sound-on-disc

The term Sound-on-disc refers to a class of sound film processes using a phonograph or other disc to record or playback sound in sync with a motion picture...

(using Berliner technology)

sound-on-film (Eric Tigerstedt

Eric Tigerstedt

Eric Magnus Campbell Tigerstedt was one of the most significant inventors in Finland at the beginning of the 20th century, and has been called the "Thomas Edison of Finland"...

's optical, later magnetic sound)

The fist successful technology, the Vitaphone, used 12 inch (300 mm) disc diameter. It was enough only eleven minutes playing time, however the silent film stock (the reel) could run the average of 15 minutes

Resources

Sound mix list on the Internet Movie Database
Internet Movie Database
Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
Sound experiences in the era of the silent film
The origins of the Firm "Tobis-Klang" The first film released using this technique was the German Melodie der Welt partially silent

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