Dickson Experimental Sound Film

Name: Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Genre: Short, Music
Released: 1894-08-31
Duration: 1 min 22 s
Rating: 6.7
Cast: William K.L. Dickson

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6.7/10

2.6K

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Short Music

The earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two men... Read allThe earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two men dance in the foreground. This film was made to demonstrate a new Thomas Edison machine, t... Read allThe earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two men dance in the foreground. This film was made to demonstrate a new Thomas Edison machine, the Kinetophone. These machines were Kinetoscope peepshow viewers mated with Thomas Edison ... Read all

Director
- William K.L. Dickson
Star
- William K.L. Dickson

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6.7/10

2.6K

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William K.L. Dickson in Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)

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William K.L. Dickson

Violinist
(uncredited)

Director
- William K.L. Dickson(uncredited)
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Trivia
The synchronized sound version was restored in 2000 by Walter Murch, Rick Schmidlin, Industrial Light and Magic and Skywalker Sound, which is a division of Lucas Digital, Ltd., LLC (a George Lucas company) in collaboration with the Library of Congress and the Edison National Historic Site.

Quotes
Man: Are the rest of you ready? Go ahead!

Connections
Featured in The Miracle of Sound (1940)

Soundtracks
The Chimes of Normandy
(1877) (uncredited)
(Originally called "Les cloches de Corneville (The Bells of Corneville)"
Written by Robert Planquette
Small section played on violin by William K.L. Dickson

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Missing sound has been discovered

The Library of Congress has discovered the missing sound-track for this film, which was at the Edison National Historical Site all along. It was a cylinder, broken in half, labelled "WKL Dickson Violin with Kineto" and it has recently been repaired, transcribed, and put in synch with the image. This short film now takes its place as the oldest existing sound film. Before the image starts, you can just hear someone saying "Are the rest of you ready? Go ahead!"

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