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According to Wikipedia; 

At Paramount, Dorothy Arzner directed Clara Bow's first talkieThe Wild Party (1929). To allow Bow to move freely on the set, Arzner had technicians rig a microphone onto a fishing rod, essentially creating the first boom mike.[2][3] She did not, however, take out a patent. One year later one was filed for a very similar sound-recording device by Edmund H Hansen, a sound engineer at the Fox Film Corporation.[4]

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Edward Bernds claimed to have invented a mic boom in 1928 at Columbia Pictures in his book Mr. Bernds Goes to Hollywood...

http://www.amazon.com/Mr-Bernds-Goes-Hollywood-Edward/dp/0810836025/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1443255562&sr=1-1

But Bernds admits that he had heard of others using booms in the weeks prior to building his own, though he never actually saw one.

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For what it is worth, here's a story I heard from a (Fisher) boom operator years back.

On location in Kenya, the sound maintenance guy decided to service the Fisher after shooting, as it had got a lot of dust in it. The only place with enough space to do this was in the hotel lobby, but after he had cleaned it, he got into a bit of a pickle trying to reassemble it. Observing his increasing frustration, a hotel guest came over to lend him a hand. The hotel guest was very, VERY knowledgeable and after the task had been successfully completed, the maintenance guy bought his helper a drink and in conversation it came out that he had been assisted by Mr. Fisher himself, on holiday there. Now that was a stroke of good luck!

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