RESEARCH

work set by Mr. kemp

Leon Gaumonts phonoscene

A). Leon gaumonts created a machine which got pre recorded sound (music) and a film footage and forged them together in sync so that the timing made it look as if the actors in the video where speaking but in reality it was more of a lip sync. this was called the phonoscene.

B). like the illustrated song gaumonts phonoscene was used comercially and created quite a lot of profit


this is a phonoscene from the year 1905 showing "Alice Guy"

Wikipedia described this invention as the antecedent of music videos and more  highly as the forerunner of the sound film. this was first made in 1902 and was incredibly popular and as you can see quite a massive leap from the illustrated song so naturally people would be amazed, this was literally music with moving, flowing film...the first true basic music video! the phonoscene was then officially introduce in the united kingdom in Buckingham Palace at 1907 and kept going until the last phonoscene although it was different to modern day music videos in ways such as quality, pace, colour and sound. it still held the features which resemble modern day music videos the most, such as a hardware which simultaneously played the music and image in perfect sync, film like images (not slide shows). this was not done before because it was expensive (Hollywood expensive). in my opinion although the techniques and hardware were different it still held the concept of a real music video.