Gramophone Used for Cinema Sound . This gramophone was owned by the Norwegian film pioneer and cinema director Hugo Hermansen. Gramophones were used in the earliest cinemas to accompany silent film. Emile Berliner, a German immigrant to the USA competed with Edison on several inventions. He used flat disks instead of cylinders, which was an advantage in the mass production of recordings.

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Gramophone Used for Cinema Sound . This gramophone was owned by the Norwegian film pioneer and cinema director Hugo Hermansen. Gramophones were used in the earliest cinemas to accompany silent film. Emile Berliner, a German immigrant to the USA competed with Edison on several inventions. He used flat disks instead of cylinders, which was an advantage in the mass production of recordings.

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