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phonoscène

phonoscène noun: a synchronized chronograph film and sound recording featuring lip syncing to simulate a recorded musical performance.

Noun

phonoscène (plural phonoscènes)

  1. A synchronized chronograph film and sound recording featuring lip syncing to simulate a recorded musical performance.
    • Bonsoir M'sieurs, Dames. Dranem (1906, Gaumont, phonoscène).2009, Jane Gaines, Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 138
    • In the documentary that we have of Alice Guy directing a phonoscène, we see this process at work: Guy starts up the phonograph (with a double horn) and watches the dance troupe (for a scene from Mignon) go through its steps.[2014 August 22, Alison McMahan, “Chapter Two: Sound Rewrites Silents: Alice Guy and The Gaumont Chronophone”, in Alice Guy Blaché: Lost Visionary of the Cinema, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 56

Forms of phonoscène

pluralphonoscènes

Questions about phonoscène

What does phonoscène mean?
Phonoscène means a synchronized chronograph film and sound recording featuring lip syncing to simulate a recorded musical performance.
What part of speech is phonoscène?
Phonoscène is a noun.
What is the plural of phonoscène?
The plural of phonoscène is phonoscènes.

Words near phonoscène in the dictionary

  1. phonoresponse
  2. phonoresponses
  3. phonos
  4. phonoscope
  5. phonoscopes
  6. phonoscène
  7. phonoscènes
  8. phonosemantic
  9. phonosemantically
  10. phonosemantics
  11. phonostatistics

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