Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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A Brief History of Sound Recording
Object 11 of 36
The Walking and Talking Film (June 1934, 1:42)
Alan Blumlein & EMI Crew | EMI Studios, London
First stereo film soundtrack

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Museum of Portable Sound's "A Brief History of Sound Recording: Fully Incomplete and Highly Biased" is a new gallery guide book that is also a standalone history of recorded audio.

For the full object labels to these sounds, follow along in the book!

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