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by Piskvorrr 2312 days ago
Of course it wasn't captured, it's a modern audio track applied to a colorized+upscaled, originally silent film.

Silent films (which meant that literally no audio track was recorded) did depend on the cinema creating one, either through people literally banging on cans, through an orchestra, to an outright Rube Goldberg contraption: https://psmag.com/environment/sound-effects-in-the-silent-mo...