First Sound Film - 1895

Experimental sound film made for Edison's kinetophone -- a combination of the kinetoscope and phonograph -- but apparently never distributed. The Library of Congress copy is silent. Features two men dancing to a violinist.

Performer: W.K.L. Dickson or Charles D'Almaine.

Camera, William Heise.

Filmed ca. September 1894 to April 2, 1895, in Edison's Black Maria studio.

OTHER TITLES
Variant title: [Dickson violin]

CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : [Edison Manufacturing Co., 1895].

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