Film Language Tag: sound-on-disc

A sound reproduction system whose synchronous sound program accompanies a motion picture from a separate disc — originally, a phonograph disc — that is played back in sync with the picture. The first presentation of synchronous sound to a paying theatrical audience (presented by Oskar Messter in Berlin in September 1896) and the sound system that ushered in the Sound Era (the Vitaphone system used for The Jazz Singer, which premiered on October 6, 1927), were both sound-on-disc systems. Some digital sound systems, such as DTS, also employ a sound-on-disc technique. Kroon, R. W. A/V a to z: An encyclopedic dictionary of media, entertainment and other Audiovisual terms. McFarland, 2014.