Joseph T. Tykociner: Demonstration of Sound on Film Technology / Audiovisual Digital Surrogates from the Joseph T. Tykociner Papers, Series 11/6/20

This film shows Joseph T. Tykociner's sound on film apparatus and gives a description of its method of operation. Much of the original sound has been restored in this film due to a grant from National Film Preservation Foundation (NFPF) to preserve the motion picture film elements and potentially restore the unknown sound elements from Tykociner's experiments. However, this film represents the latest results of an ongoing research project to decode the original audio from Tykociner’s sound on film demonstration.

To see an earlier version of the film produced from a 16mm positive film, 200 feet in length, acquired from Arthur Wildhagen on December 10, 1970 (which is a duplicate of a 16mm negative film held by the Motion Picture Service to match sound and images of Mrs. Tykociner and a violinist). The MPAA copy is itself a duplicate of the original film produced between 1921 and 1922. The sound track of the original film did not play in a modern projector: https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/Joseph+TykocinerA+Demonstration+of+Sound+on+Film+%28Beta%29+++...