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Dickson violin

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  • "Dickson experimental sound film"

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  • "Experimental sound film made for Edison's kinetophone -- a combination of the kinetoscope and phonograph -- but apparently never distributed. Features two men dancing to a violinist. 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. "This short film is the world's first known experiment in producing a motion picture with a recorded synchronized soundtrack. Though never commercially released, it survives as evidence of Thomas Edison's efforts to produce "sound movies" at the dawn of the American motion picture industry in 1894. Dickson, the first movie director in history, is the violinist and plays a brief selection from the opera "The Chimes at Midnight" by Jean Robert Planquette.--Transcript."

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  • "Filmed performances"
  • "Silent films"
  • "Nonfiction films"
  • "Short films"

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  • "Dickson violin"

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