On This Day in Telephone History December 17TH 1926 - Organization begun of Electrical Research Products, Inc., wholly owned subsidiary of Western Electric Company, to market by-product inventions of Bell Telephone Laboratories. One such product was the Movietone sound-on-film recording system. Which, by 1928, virtually every major and minor studio in Hollywood was licensed by Western Electric’s newly created marketing subsidiary, Electrical Research Products, Incorporated (ERPI).

On This Day in Telephone History December 17TH 1926

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On This Day in Telephone History December 17TH 1926 – Organization begun of Electrical Research Products, Inc., wholly owned subsidiary of Western Electric Company, to market by-product inventions of Bell Telephone Laboratories. One such product was the Movietone sound-on-film recording system. Which, by 1928, virtually every major and minor studio in Hollywood was licensed by Western Electric’s newly created marketing subsidiary, Electrical Research Products, Incorporated (ERPI).