sound head

American  

noun

Movies.

1. a mechanism through which film passes in a projector for conversion of the soundtrack into audio-frequency signals that can be amplified and reproduced.

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sound head British  

noun

1. the part of a film projector that reproduces the sound in a film

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Etymology

Origin of sound head

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

To find the most endangered salmon in Puget Sound, head to some of its fastest developing landscapes: the suburbs.

From Seattle Times

Before this week’s cuts, Microsoft had laid off about 2,700 people in the state, or 6 percent of the company’s Puget Sound head count before the layoffs.

From Seattle Times

Which of the blustering band Has a really sound head on his shoulders, a really skilled craft to his hand?

From Project Gutenberg

Death has taken away, within a brief space, several of our estimable citizens—Mr. Joseph Balch, an excellent and amiable man, who filled an official station, honorably for himself, and profitably for others—Mr. Samuel C. Gray, a gentleman of taste and refinement, who graduated at Harvard College, in 1811, and, at the time of his death, was President of the Atlas Bank—Mr. John Bromfield, a man of a sound head, and a kind heart.

From Project Gutenberg

They are quite astonished that, in addition to the execution of the law, good sense and a sound head should be expected from them.

From Project Gutenberg