Here I present: Lee de Forest, “Means for Recording and Reproducing Sound”, #1,446,246 US PATENT, 20 February 1923 which was the invention of “talking films”.
Thomas Edison’s patent filed in 1897 was the invention of “35mm cinema”.
Celluloid 35mm film adaptation of the genres of literature became possible with this invention by Lee de Forest of “talking films” in 1923.
Literature, as an art form, has six (6) genres:
- 0. Cinema,
Five (5) of these genres originated in Oral Prehistory; and, only Cinema originated (technologically) in modern times as a Literary genre.
- Theater and Cinema are often adaptions of fiction, novels.
The novel is a Fiction genre, that came existence in the Age of Printing. The first Western novel was Miguel de Cervantes, “Don Quixote”, 1605.
- The novel as a form of Fiction is of Japanese origin (“Tale of Genji”, written 1008).