GEORGE GROVES MOVIE SOUND DOWNLOADS
On this page are a number of documents
relevant to this website. Most of them were
collected by George Groves during his 46 year
career with Warner Bros. We believe all these
items are public domain and are made
available for educational and historical
purposes.
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The 13 page programme for So’s
Your Old Man, the dormitory revue of
the Central Branch of the YMCA of Brooklyn,
NY. The young George Groves was responsible
for the orchestrations and conducting the
15 piece orchestra for the shows held on
February 5th & 6th 1926.
2.7mb
The sixteen page theater programme for
Don Juan from August 1926 with
profiles of Warner Bros. and the
engineering staff plus critiques of
Vitaphone. There's also biographies of the
artists involved in the seminal film and
the six short subjects which accompanied
its screening. 1.4mb
A four page colour programme from January
1927 which accompanied the screening of
Don Juan at the Schubert Lafayette
Theatre in Detroit.
344kb
A four page article also from January 1927
that was published in National
Magazine. Includes a picture of George
Groves at Bell Labs.
2.3mb
A Warners Bros. chronology of the
development of sound motion pictures. The
six page document is undated but ends in
December 1929. 1mb
A six page report on the First Motion
Picture Unit of the American Air Force.
This was published in 1946 in Hollywood
Quarterly magazine.
56kb
A paper that George Groves wrote for the
Society of Motion Picture Engineers in
March 1947 on the practice of being a sound
recordist and mixer. 2.9mb
An article entitled Playback Records In
Motion Picture Production which George
Groves wrote for International Sound
Technician Magazine in June 1953.
2.1mb
A seven page article on the making of My
Fair Lady in the September 1964 edition
of International Photographer
magazine. 2.3mb
A fascinating paper of 5850 words entitled
The Sound of Silents written by
Stanley Watkins' daughter Barbara Witemeyer
about her father's work.
56kb
An eight page photocopy of the press
release sent out in 1973 promoting the
newly-opened Burbank Studios.
780kb
A five page trade release for The Jazz
Singer 80th anniversary 3-Disc Collector's
Edition DVD which was released in
October 2007. (NB. only 2 discs
are being released in Europe)
56kb