Stefano, it is funny that you have mentioned the “an old, little cinema in a small town”. I do not know if you did it unintentionally or you meant as some kind of sarcastic self-deprecated joke. What I mean is that the initial industry demands for rudimental time-alignment come from old "cinema houses". Up to the mid of the 20s the films did not have synchronized recorded sound. In the mid-end of the 20s the first Vitaphone, Movietone and Photophone system show up and sound synchronized become available. The most advanced sound installations in cinema houses at that time had 2-way acoustic systems and the cinematographers’ recognized that when they presented once in a film tap dancing then without time-alignment of the channels they do not have visual and auditable synchronized between the actions and sound.
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