sound track

A form of soundtrack — A narrow strip running down a movie film that carries the recorded sound in synchronization with the pictures.

Meanings

nounsound track (plural sound tracks)

plural sound tracks

  1. alternativeAlternative form of soundtrack.

    As the rest of the film was made on location in the railway yards of Havre and not in a studio, and was given a sound-track of penetrating vividness, this whole production gives the closest possible ring of truth of any film about railways.

    1958 February 28, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 89
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