Stanley S. A. Watkins and George Groves film cell plaque

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# Warner Bros. and the Birth of Sound Cinema at Leicester Square Standing before Warners Cinema on Leicester Square, you're at the very epicenter where Watkins and Groves' revolutionary work transformed from laboratory concept into the lived experience of thousands of Londoners. During the late 192...

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Warners Cinema, Leicester Square

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Stanley S. A. Watkins (1888-1975) George R. Groves (1901-1976) The British electrical engineers who worked in America for Western Electric and Warner Bros. and played major roles in the development of 'Talking Pictures'.