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Phono-Kinema was a sound-on-disc system for motion pictures invented by Orlando Kellum. The system was used for a small number of short films, mostly made in 1921, of subjects such as actor Frederick Warde reading an original poem, labor leader Samuel Gompers on labor issues, Irvin S. Cobb reading from his works, and a film of Warren Harding's Secretary of Labor James J. Davis.

The process was also used by D. W. Griffith to record a prologue to his film Dream Street (1921).

In 1982, Kellum's widow donated the surviving films made in the Phono-Kinema process to the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

  • List of films made in Phono-Kinema listed at IMDB [1]
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