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Griffith and the contributions of Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton and others, continued to advance the The Simpsons Movie On Dvd medium. In the 1920s, new technology allowed filmmakers to attach to each film a soundtrack The Simpsons Movie On Dvd of speech, music The Simpsons Movie On Dvd and sound effects synchronizedThe Simpsons Movie On Dvdwith the action on the screen.The Simpsons Movie On DvdThese sound films The Simpsons Movie On Dvd were initially distinguished by calling them "talking pictures", or The Simpsons Movie On Dvd talkies. The next major step in the development of cinema was the introduction of so-called "natural" color. While the addition of sound quickly eclipsed silent film and theater musicians, color was adopted more gradually as methods evolved making it more practical and The Simpsons Movie On Dvd cost effective to produce "natural color" films. 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Recording technology has also enabled consumers to rent or buy copies of films on VHS or DVD (and the older formats of laserdisc, VCD and SelectaVision � see also videodisc), and Internet downloads may be available and have started to become revenue sources for the film companies. Some films are The Simpsons Movie On Dvd now made specifically for these other venues, being released as made-for-TV movies or direct-to-video movies. The production values on these films are often considered to The Simpsons Movie On Dvd be of inferior quality compared to theatrical The Simpsons Movie On Dvd releases in similar genres, and indeed, some The Simpsons Movie On Dvd films that are rejected by their own studios upon completion are distributed through these markets. 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