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The First Issue – Armistice Day 1929. The first official issue of Gaumont Sound News was launched on 11th November 1929 and focused on one of the popular newsreel events, Armistice Day. The issue created a couple of Armistice related items to showcase its own sound credentials: an interview with Lady Haig and a visit by the Prince of Wales to ...
In April 1930 E.V.H. Emmett delivered his first commentary and over the next couple of years would become the voice of Gaumont Sound News as it developed its own style and identity in the face of rising competition from other sound newsreels released by Pathe and Paramount.
The first British sound newsreel was British Movietone News, which began life in June 1929. The parent company, Fox, was American, the signal of a significant change in ownership-bias from the French companies that had originally supported British newsfilming in the silent era.
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Jan 18, 2024 · As the Empire screened sound newsreels, it was clearly wired for sound by January 1929, but the bulk of its programme remained silent until May when its feature presentation was Harry Beaumont’s Broadway Melody of 1929, which was the first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Feature Film. The cinema’s programme had a new look to ...
Gaumont Graphic began broadcasting silent newsreels in 1910 until the launch of Gaumont Sound in 1929, where it continued as its silent counterpart for smaller cinemas. Gaumont British News was first released in 1934.
The first British newsreel, Pathé's Animated Gazette, was established in June 1910; it was soon followed by Warwick Bioscope Chronicle, Gaumont Graphic, Topical Budget, and others.
With the advent of sound, new services were developed: British Movietone News 1929-1986; British Paramount 1931-1957; Gaumont Sound News 1932-34; Gaumont British News 1934-1959; Pathé News 1945-1970; Visnews 1957-1984. The news coverage frequently overlapped.
