. . . . . . . . "Silent films" . . "Short films" . "[Dickson experimental sound film]" . . . . "Experimental films" . . . . . . "Music" . . "Dickson violin" . "Dancing men in the Black Maria" . . "Shows W. K. L. Dickson playing the violin before a large phonograph horn connected with an off-screen reader while two men dance together. Part of Dickson's sound-synchronization experiments." . "Nonfiction films" . . . . . "Experimental sound film made for Edison's kinetophone -- a combination of the kinetoscope and phonograph -- but apparently never distributed. This LC copy is silent. Features two men dancing to a violinist." .