Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)

Name: Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Genre: Documentary, Music
Released: 1894-08-31

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August 31, 1894
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Plot.

William K.L. Dickson plays the violin while two men dance. This is the oldest surviving sound film where sound is recorded on the phonograph.

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Cast & Crew.

William K.L. Dickson

Self / Director / Producer / Musician

Charles D'Almaine

Self / Musician

Fred Ott

Assistant Director

Walter Murch

Editor

William Heise

Director / Director of Photography

Robert Planquette

Music

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Release Date
August 31, 1894

Status
Released

Running Time
1m

This Movie Is About.

violin

black and white

short

music

sound

experimental film

Wiki.

The Dickson Experimental Sound Film is a film made by William Dickson in late 1894 or early 1895. It is the first known film with live-recorded sound and appears to be the first motion picture made for the Kinetophone, the proto-sound-film system developed by Dickson and Thomas Edison. (The Kinetophone, consisting of a Kinetoscope accompanied by a cylinder-playing phonograph, was not a true sound-film system, for there was no attempt to synchronize picture and sound throughout playback.) The film was produced at the "Black Maria", Edison's New Jersey film studio. There is no evidence that it was ever exhibited in its original format.

In 2003, The Dickson Experimental Sound Film was included in the annual selection of 25 motion pictures added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress, being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and recommended for preservation.