phonoscène

noun

A synchronized chronograph film and sound recording featuring lip syncing to simulate a recorded musical performance.

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Meanings

nounphonoscène (plural phonoscènes)

plural phonoscènes

  1. broadcastingA synchronized chronograph film and sound recording featuring lip syncing to simulate a recorded musical performance.

    Bonsoir M'sieurs, Dames. Dranem (1906, Gaumont, phonoscène).

    2009, Jane Gaines, Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 138
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    In the documentary that we have of Alice Guy directing a phonoscène, we see this process at work: Guy starts up the phonograph (with a double horn) and watches the dance troupe (for a scene from Mignon) go through its steps.

    [2014 August 22, Alison McMahan, “Chapter Two: Sound Rewrites Silents: Alice Guy and The Gaumont Chronophone”, in Alice Guy Blaché: Lost Visionary of the Cinema, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 56
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