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Description
Academy Award "Oscar" awarded to Lee de Forest for technical achievement in film. The inscription on the base reads, "Academy Honorary Award to Lee de Forest for his Pioneer Invention which brought Sound to the Motion Picture. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 1959." From Mike Adams' Lee de Forest website, the Oscar was awarded for de Forest's Phonofilm process, a way to make the movies talk by adding a synchronized optical soundtrack to the film. For that 1920 invention, the first sound-on-film process, he received in 1959 an honorary Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Type
image
Identifier
D1D0B457-1F7D-4A08-B815-518843089850 2003-1-4
Subject
Awards Inventors Sound recording Sound motion pictures De Forest, Lee
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