Freeman Harrison Owens
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Freeman Harrison Owens was an early American filmmaker and aerial photographer.
Freeman Harrison Owens in 1919
Phonofilm
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Phonofilm is an optical variable density sound-on-film system developed by inventors Lee de Forest and Theodore Case in the early 1920s.
A piece of early sound equipment of the De Forest Phonofilms Corporation
Charles Ward, sound engineer, fitting the sound-head to the projector of the De Forest Phonofilms' sound film system
Newspaper ad for Phonofilm shorts shown at the Strand Theatre in Biloxi, Mississippi (Biloxi Daily Herald, December 5, 1925)
Advertisement for the American film Love's Old Sweet Song (1923) with Louis Wolheim, Helen Lowell, Donald Gallaher, and Helen Weir