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IN the article on speaking films which appeared in NATURE of October 27 Prof. Rankine says: “Combinations of picture films and ordinary gramophones have been frequently tried without success sufficient to ensure their survival in practice. The difficulty, of course, mainly arises from the impossibility of preserving synchronism between a gramophone record and film.”
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PENDRED, L. Speaking Films. Nature 108, 338–339 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108338a0
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