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Early Motion Pictures, 1897-1920
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OTHER TITLES
Variant title: [Dickson violin]
Variant title: [Dancing men in the Black Maria]
CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : [Edison Manufacturing Co., 1895].
SUMMARY
Experimental sound film made for Edison's kinetophone -- a combination of the kinetoscope and phonograph -- but apparently never distributed. The LC copy is silent. Features two men dancing to a violinist.
NOTES
Copyright: no reg.
Performer: W.K.L. Dickson or Charles D'Almaine.
Camera, William Heise.
Duration: 0:21 at 30 fps.
MAVIS 16765; [Dickson experimental sound film].
Filmed ca. September 1894 to April 2, 1895, in Edison's Black Maria studio.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Musser, C. Edison motion pictures 1890-1900, 1997, p. 178.
viewing print; Received: ca. 1968-05-06; gift; Dunston (Gatewood) Collection.
SUBJECTS
Sound motion pictures--Experiments.
Kineto-phonograph.
Violin.
Violinists.
Dance.
Male dancers.
Experimental films.
Silent films.
Short films.
Nonfiction films.
RELATED NAMES
Dickson, W. K.-L. (William Kennedy-Laurie), 1860-1935, production, cast.
D'Almaine, Charles, 1871-1943, cast.
Heise, William, camera.
Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
Dunston (Gatewood) Collection (Library of Congress)
MEDIUM
viewing print. 1 film reel of 1 (43 ft.) : si., b&w ; 16 mm.
CALL NUMBER
FLA 0374 (viewing print)
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division Washington, D. C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID
edmp 4034 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsmi/edmp.4034
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