John Frayne

Sound-On-Film Technology

  • Frayne was an Irish-American engineer and inventor who won three Academy Awards with some of his inventions.
  • He began his career in in the Army where he helped develop wireless telephone communications and later worked at Bell Laboratories.
  • He developed stereophonic 45 degree cutters and stereophonic sound-on-film for motion pictures and is widely recognized as an important contributor to the film industry.