| 释义 |
Movietone|ˈmuːvɪtəʊn|
Also movietone.
[f. movie + tone n.]
The proprietary name of a system employed in the making of sound films; a film made by this system; also used allusively of the style of presentation of newsreels formerly produced by the Movietone Company. Also attrib.
1927Daily Express 27 Aug. 1/3 The ‘movietone’ is an invention with the same technical basis as the ‘phonofilm’. 1927Glasgow Herald 12 Oct. 11/1 The movietone..is a vast improvement on previous talking films. 1927G. B. Shaw Platform & Pulpit (1962) 178, I am an actual real animal; I am not the latest movietone illusion. 1928Trade Marks Jrnl 4 Apr. 534/1 Movietone... Cinematograph transparencies for exhibition. Fox Case Corporation..City..of New York, United States of America; manufacturers. 1928Liberty 11 Aug. 25/2 George Bernard Shaw as he appears in a strip of Movietone film. Note the sound track on the left margin. 1930Nature 19 July 93/1 With such a sound standard at a known distance from the movietone microphone, a record of pitch and intensity of pure notes covering a wide range of frequencies and intensities may be recorded on the film. Ibid., Fig. 1 is a reproduction of a movietone film of an orchestra and the micro⁓photometric record of the music recorded. 1939Motion Pict. Herald 28 Oct. 30/1 Movietone News has devoted two complete issues to the war. 1953L. J. Wheeler Princ. Cinematogr. vii. 213 An invention by Theodore W. Case made possible the Fox-Case Movietone news, photographed by cameras fitted with a device capable of recording sound alongside the picture and on the same negative film. The Movietone camera was made possible by the ability of certain gas-filled lamps to vary in brightness in true relationship to the current which is passing through them. 1969Listener 23 Jan. 123/2 A reading from the Old Testament about the death of Moses delivered in a hushed movietone voice. |