The Case Research Lab is the preserved Auburn laboratory where Theodore Case developed the Movietone sound-on-film process in the 1920s, working with Bell Telephone Laboratories and later with Fox Film Corporation to produce the first successful synchronized-sound feature films. The Al Jolson film 'The Jazz Singer' (1927) used the Movietone system, and the commercial success that followed ended the silent film era. Case's laboratory on Genesee Street in Auburn is restored to its working-period condition and operates as a museum exhibit within the Cayuga Museum of History and Art complex. Open Tuesday through Saturday year-round.















