Original photograph of a RCA Photophone booth, 1929

Los Angeles: RKO Radio Pictures, 1929. Vintage photograph of actor Owen Moore with sound technician John Tribby, listening to dialogue being recorded on the set, in a RCA Photophone booth at the RKO studios. Date stamp and mimeo snipe on the verso, the latter mentioning Moore's forthcoming appearance in the 1929 film "Side Street," accompanied by his brothers Matt and Tom.

RKO Radio Pictures was founded in 1929 by the Radio Corporation of America, or RCA, to promote their new sound-on-film system, Photophone. The studio released the first live-recorded film made with Photophone in 1929, the pre-Code musical "Syncopation," starring Barbara Bennett and Bobby Watson.

7.75 x 9.75 inches. Near Fine.