George Jessel (actor)
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George Albert "Georgie" Jessel was an American actor, singer, songwriter, and film producer. He was famous in his lifetime as a multitalented comedic entertainer, achieving a level of recognition that
Jessel c. 1926
George Jessel signature
Jessel c. 1924
Jessel (left) and George Steinbrenner in 1980 at a comedy roast
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