36-416: (Redirected from What Price Glory ) What Price Glory? may refer to: What Price Glory? (1926 film) , directed by Raoul Walsh What Price Glory (1952 film) , directed by John Ford What Price Glory? (play) , a 1924 play by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings; basis for both films What Price Glory?! , a role-playing game Topics referred to by
72-410: A captain , he is in command of a company on the front lines of France during World War I . Sergeant Quirt is assigned to Flagg's unit as the senior non-commissioned officer . Flagg and Quirt quickly resume their rivalry, which this time takes its form over the affections of Charmaine, the daughter of the local innkeeper. However, Charmaine's desire for a husband and the reality of war give the two men
108-470: A common cause. The film featured a theme song entitled "Charmaine" which was composed by Ernö Rapée and Lew Pollack. Fox acquired the film rights to the play What Price Glory? for $ 100,000. The film was directed by Raoul Walsh and released as a silent film by Fox Film Corporation on November 23, 1926 in the US, and had a 116-minute running time. On January 21, 1927, a short film of singer Raquel Meller
144-585: A departure from the previous practice in Phonofilm, where the soundhead was placed above the picture head. Case also adopted the 24 frames/sec speed for Movietone, aligning it with the speed already chosen for the Western Electric Vitaphone sound-on-disc system. This established 24 frames/sec as the standard speed for all sound films, whether sound-on-disc or sound-on-film and has remained the standard speed for professional sound films with
180-548: A few exceptions. At this point, Case and Sponable's Movietone system was adopted by the AMPAS as the academy's standard. It was interchangeable with the later RCA Photophone system in most respects. For technical details and lists of the industry adopters, please refer to RCA Photophone . The commercial use of Movietone began when William Fox of the Fox Film Corporation purchased the entire system, including
216-610: A lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court against the film industry, which he believed had violated his Tri-Ergon patents. Sponable had done very little to establish the historical record of Case Research Lab inventions, apart from his April 1947 article in The Journal of the SMPE . It was also in 1947 that the Davis Loop Drive was introduced to Western Electric licensees, including Twentieth Century-Fox (WECo RA-1231; still made by
252-550: A successor company). The Case Research Lab, the adjoining carriage house, and Case's home have been restored. Research using the lab receipts, notebooks, correspondence, and much of the laboratory's original equipment is ongoing. This includes the first recording device created to test the AEO light. The collections include letters from Thomas Edison , a copy of the Tri-Ergon patents, and an internal document from Fox Films written in
288-648: A system he called Phonofilm . De Forest was not having much success and sought help from Case. From 1922 to 1925, Case and de Forest collaborated in developing the Phonofilm system. Among Case's other inventions, he contributed the Thalofide photocell and the Aeo-light , a light source that could be easily modulated by audio signals and could finally be utilized to expose the soundtrack in the film of sound cameras. In 1925, Case terminated his partnership with de Forest due to de Forest's habit of claiming sole credit for
324-407: Is based on the 1924 play What Price Glory by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings and was remade in 1952 as What Price Glory starring James Cagney . Malcolm Stuart Boylan , founder of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary , was title writer on the silent Fox attraction. Flagg and Quirt are veteran United States Marines whose rivalry dates back a number of years. Flagg is commissioned
360-488: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages What Price Glory%3F (1926 film) What Price Glory? is a 1926 American synchronized sound comedy drama war film produced and distributed by Fox Film Corporation and directed by Raoul Walsh . The film was released with a synchronized musical score with sound effects using the Movietone sound system. The film
396-543: The RKO Radio Pictures film Call Out the Marines (1942). Movietone sound system The Movietone sound system is an optical sound-on-film method of recording sound for motion pictures, ensuring synchronization between sound and picture. It achieves this by recording the sound as a variable-density optical track on the same strip of film that records the pictures. The initial version of this system
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#1732787193841432-517: The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers . He published a concise history of sound film in the April 1947 issue of The SMPE Journal ( The SMPTE Journal after 1950). The history of Case Research Lab was long unheralded. After Theodore Case passed away in 1944, he left his home and laboratory as a donation to be preserved as a museum showcasing the inventions of Case Research Lab. However,
468-598: The intertitles , but which can be deciphered by lipreaders . The studio was reportedly inundated by calls and letters from enraged Americans, including deaf and hearing impaired people, to whom the vivid profanity between Sergeant Quirt and Captain Flagg was extremely offensive. In the 1924 Broadway play the roles of Captain Flagg and Sgt. Quirt were played by Louis Wolheim , fresh from his triumph in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape and William "Stage" Boyd . Curiously Wolheim and
504-413: The "Thalofide cell," a sensitive photocell which was utilized by the U.S. Navy during and for some years after World War I as part of an infrared communication system. In 1922, Case and his assistant, Earl I. Sponable, shifted their focus to "talking pictures." During that year, Case was approached by Lee de Forest , who had been trying since 1919 to develop an optical soundtrack for motion picture film in
540-622: The 1930s. This latter document states that once it became public knowledge that Sponable perfected the variable-area sound-on-film system at the Fox Studios, that system became the standard and superseded the inventions of Case Research Lab. Several films owned by Case Research Lab and Museum were restored by George Eastman House in Rochester, New York and are in their collections. The Case Research Lab and Museum has additional sound-film footage of Theodore Case. Recently discovered copies of
576-429: The 1960s. He eventually won an Academy Award for his technical work on the development of CinemaScope . Sponable made numerous contributions to film technology, including the invention of the perforated motion-picture screen. This innovation allowed speakers to be placed behind the screen to enhance the illusion of sound emanating directly from the film action. During his time at Fox, Sponable also served as an officer of
612-536: The Fox Movietone system was Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), directed by F. W. Murnau . This film was the first professionally produced feature film with an optical soundtrack. The sound in the film included music and sound effects but only a few unsynchronized spoken words. The system was also used for sound acting sequences in Mother Knows Best (1928). Within two years after purchasing
648-656: The Phonofilm system, despite most of critical inventions originating from Case. Documents supporting this, including a signed letter by De Forest that states that Phonofilms are only possible because of the inventions of Case Research Lab, are located at the Case Research Lab Museum in Auburn, New York . In 1925, therefore, Case and Sponable continued developing their system, which they now called "Movietone". Since 1924, Sponable focused on designing single-system cameras that could record both sound and pictures on
684-550: The cast prior to their marriage. Composers Ernö Rapée and Lew Pollack collaborated on the popular song " Charmaine " for the film, named after the character of Charmaine de la Cognac. McLaglen and Lowe reprised their roles from the movie in the radio program Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt , broadcast on the Blue Network September 28, 1941 – January 25, 1942, and on NBC February 13, 1942 – April 3, 1942. Lowe and McLaglen played two similar Marines in
720-680: The collections of the Library of Congress and the British Film Institute . After the 1940s, Movietone's variable density (VD) recording systems began to lose ground to Photophone's variable area (VA) systems developed by Photophone as VA-related patents expired. Both methods can achieve similar standards of recording, duplication, and reproduction. However, quality control in the lab became much more critical in duplicating VD tracks than VA tracks. Minor inaccuracies in printer light settings, sensitometry, and densitometry control had
756-417: The convenience of transporting the single-system's sound film equipment. The Case Research Lab's sound system substantially impacted industry standards. For instance, it positioned the optical sound 20 frames ahead of the accompanying image. The SMPTE standard for 35 mm sound film is +21 frames for optical, but a 46-foot theatre reduces this to +20 frames. This adjustment was made partly to ensure
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#1732787193841792-503: The film runs smoothly past the sound head. It was also made to prevent Phonofilms from being played in theaters, as the Phonofilm system was incompatible with Case Research Lab specifications, and to ease the modification of projectors already widely in use. Sponable worked at the Fox Film Corporation (which later became 20th Century-Fox Film ) Movietone studios on 54th Street and 10th Avenue in New York City until he retired in
828-530: The museum's first director, who oversaw it for 50 years, decided to put the laboratory's contents into storage and converted the building into an art studio. The Case Research Lab sound studio was located on the second floor of the estate's carriage house, which had been rented to a local model train club until the early 1990s. After sustaining severe injuries in a car accident in July 1929, Fox lost his company in 1930 when his loans were called in. In 1936, he also lost
864-421: The original frame shape of the silent era. In the 1950s, the first 35mm kinescope camera with sound-on-film was introduced by Photo-Sonics. This camera featured a Davis Loop Drive mechanism built within the camera box, which was essential for TV network time-shifting before the use of videotape. The sound galvanometer, made by RCA, was designed to produce good to excellent results when the kinescope film negative
900-652: The patents, in July 1926. Despite Fox owning the Case patents, the work of Freeman Harrison Owens , and the American rights to the German Tri-Ergon patents, the Movietone sound film system utilized only the inventions of Case Research Lab. Also in 1926, William Fox hired Earl I. Sponable (1895–1977) from Case Research Lab and acquired the sound-on-film patents from Case. The first feature film released using
936-535: The same films at the Eastman House are in a much better state of preservation. Movietone News films are in the collections of 20th-Century Fox and the University of South Carolina at Columbia. This includes the only known footage of Earl I. Sponable talking. Sponable can also be seen in footage of the premiere of the film The Robe . Phonofilms that were produced using Case Research Lab inventions are in
972-529: The same negative. He requested Bell & Howell to modify one of their cameras according to his design, but the results were unsatisfactory. As a result, the Wall machine shop in Syracuse, New York was tasked with rebuilding this camera, and the results were significantly improved. Subsequently, Wall Camera Corporation produced numerous single-system 35mm cameras, which eventually led to the later development of
1008-432: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title What Price Glory? . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=What_Price_Glory%3F&oldid=683075779 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
1044-524: The system from Case, Fox bought out all of Case's interests in the Fox-Case company. All of Fox's sound feature films were made using the Movietone system until 1931, when it was superseded by a Western Electric recording system that utilized the light valve invented by Edward C. Wente in 1923. Despite this change, Fox continued to use the Movietone system for the Movietone News until 1939, due to
1080-406: The three-film Cinerama "widescreen" cameras in the 1950s. Initially, Wall converted some Bell & Howell Design 2709 cameras to single-system, but most were designed and produced by Wall. Single-system cameras were also made by Mitchell Camera Corporation during World War II for the U.S. Army Signal Corps, although these cameras were relatively rare. The aspect ratio of approximately 1.19:1
1116-404: The younger William Boyd would play characters similar to Quirt and Flagg in the 1928 film Two Arabian Knights . Although the title is sometimes listed as having a question mark, the Movietone version has simply 'WHAT PRICE GLORY', as does at least one silent trailer as well as some of the posters. In his autobiography, Peter Cushing claimed his wife, Violet Hélène Beck Cushing, was part of
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1152-460: Was capable of a frequency response of 8500 Hz. Although modern sound films use variable-area tracks instead, modern motion picture theaters (excluding those that have transitioned to digital cinema ) can play a Movietone film without modification to the projector (though if the projector's sound unit has been fitted with red LED or laser light sources, the reproduction quality from a variable density track will be significantly impaired). Movietone
1188-486: Was introduced when single-system camera technology was developed. This technology printed an optical soundtrack on top of the 35mm full aperture, which was colloquially referred to as the "Movietone ratio." This ratio was widely used by Hollywood and European studios (apart from those that adopted sound-on-disc) between the late 1920s and May 1932. In May 1932, the Academy ratio of 1.37:1 was introduced, effectively restoring
1224-451: Was one of four motion picture sound systems under development in the U.S. during the 1920s. The others were DeForest's Phonofilm , Warner Brothers ' Vitaphone , and RCA Photophone . However, Phonofilm was principally an early version of Movietone. In 1916, Theodore Case established a laboratory to research the photoelectric properties of materials. As a student, he developed an interest in using modulated light to record sound. He created
1260-451: Was projected, thereby avoiding the need to make a print before the delayed replay. Western Electric developed the Davis mechanism. After parting ways with de Forest, Case made changes to the Movietone projector soundhead by positioning it below the picture head, with a sound-picture offset of approximately 14 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (370 mm) (close to the present-day standard). This was
1296-567: Was shown before this feature at the Sam H. Harris Theater in New York City. The short film, not quite synchronized, was the first public presentation of a film in the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system. In January 1927, Fox re-released What Price Glory? with synchronized sound effects and music in the Movietone system. Part of its fame revolves around the fact that the characters can be seen speaking profanities which are not reflected in
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