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THE day of the talking book, the talking newspaper and the talking magazine is foreshadowed in the recent invention of a French machine which reads from a strip of film-like substance any speech that is recorded on it.
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This is back in 1932. I imagine the use of celluloid reels had advantages to the phonographs of the day which were very limited in the amount of audio time that could be stored.
Found at Modern Mechanix
here