At least those old news reels had traces of the audible static of old magnetic sound recording to remind you that the pictures in front of you were actually moving.

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Many different approaches to record sound with magnetic recording for were developed over the years since the first demonstration of magnetic recording on steel wires by Danish inventor, Vladimir Poulsen, sometime between 1893 and 1898.

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