 "E. B. Craft (left) making a sound picture for demonstration, at the Vitaphone Studios in the Manhattan Opera House in 1926. He exhibited the first electrically recorded sound picture in 1922," from AT&T Archives |  photo "taken by Warner Bros in the Manhattan Opera House studio. The set for a 'short' featuring Anna Case; showing camera booth and mercury lamps later discarded in favor of incandescents because of electrical interference. Sam Warner (with coat on) near the booth. In front of him Herman Heller, director of the premiere features,"
xerox of photo from AT&T Archives |  motion picture set, showing boom mics that have replaced earlier fixed mics, and camera insulation that replaced earlier sound camera boxes, ca. 1930
from AT&T exhibit "Dawn of Sound" |  drawing of the Bank Street Film Studio and Laboratory for Bell Labs sound film production from 1929 until 1933, from AT&T Archives |
