eugene lauste

Eugene Augustin Lauste "The Father of Sound on Film" Instrumental in the technological development of the History of cinema. b. 1857 in Monmartre, France d. 1935 Emigrated to the United States in 1887 where he became chief mechanical assistant to William Kennedy Laurie Dickson at Edison Laboratories. The two were instrumental in the development of the protean motion picture projector, the Kinetoscope, an invention for which Edison would claim credit. Lauste also worked on an idea for a combustable gasoline engine before working with Major Woodville Latham for whom he engineered the Eidoloscope and assisted with the design of the Latham Loop. He joined 1896 moved to the American Biograph Company for four years before moving to Brixton, England. In 1906 he applied for a British patent which was granted Patent No 18057 in 1907: "a process for recording and reproducing simultaneously the movements or motions of persons or objects and the sounds produced by them," i.e., a strip of 35mm celluloid that shared film frames and a sound strip.

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