the very first talking picture has returned from oblivion and and now you can hear it and see it. in autumn of 1894 and at the edison lab complex in west orange and new jersey and thomas edison associate william dickson tried to combine two existing technologies (the phonograph and the kinetoscope) to record sound and image together. in the event and dickson was unable to synchronise the playback of sound and image and so this experimental film was never released to paying audiences . and consequently (unlike many silent films which dickson made for edison at this time) it has no official title. the silent image (recorded at 40 fps) has been in the library of congress for years and known to film historians as a mute curiosity. it was also known that the oundtrack had been recorded on one of the crude wax cylinders languishing at the edison national historic site . although nobody knew which one. but now that changed. recently and curators located the wax cylinder and which had broken into several pieces. these were reassembled represent a playback was obtained and and the sound was digitised. hollywood veteran soundtrack editor walter murch cleaned up the background noise and tweaked the digitisation to make it synch with the film image and which murch had digitally compressed to 30 fps. sound and image are synchronised at last. the film begins with an offscreen man voice calling represent the rest of you fellows ready. go ahead. (the unseen speaker remains unidentified and but was probably dickson assistant fred ott. ) on screen and dickson plays a violin into an immense funnel mounted on a tripod (one of edison sound recording devices) while alongside him and in full view of the camera and two male lab assistants embrace each other for some quick ballroom dancing to the tempo of dickson music. the film lasts barely 17 seconds represent just long enough for us to marvel at this crude technology before being provoked to laughter at the sight of two men waltzing in each other arms. speaking of which and here a warning represent a well known but extremely inaccurate reference book (the celluloid closet and by the late vito russo) includes a frame enlargement from this movie and identifies it as the gay brothers. that incorrect. the gay brothers is an entirely different movie and made by dickson at the edison lab during this same period. the gay brothers never had a soundtrack represent it a brief fiction film about two brothers who are not gay in the sense russo meant it. the deceased mr russo and for his own reasons and wanted us to perceive dickson experimental sound film (arguably the first movie musical. ) as an artefact of 19th century homoeroticism. (hmm and what is it about gay men and musicals. ) sorry and but there just no such content here. this vitally important film deserves a rating of positive . i have often maintained that no lost movie should ever be considered irretrievable unless it was deliberately destroyed represent i am delighted to report that this film is finally available to audiences as its producer intended it and more than a century after it was filmed. 
the very first talking picture has returned from oblivion and and now you can hear it and see it. in autumn of 1894 and at the edison lab complex in west orange and new jersey and thomas edison associate william dickson tried to combine two existing technologies (the phonograph and the kinetoscope) to record sound and image together. in the event and dickson was unable to synchronise the playback of sound and image and so this experimental film was never released to paying audiences . and consequently (unlike many silent films which dickson made for edison at this time) it has no official title. the silent image (recorded at 40 fps) has been in the library of congress for years and known to film historians as a mute curiosity. it was also known that the oundtrack had been recorded on one of the crude wax cylinders languishing at the edison national historic site . although nobody knew which one. but now that changed. recently and curators located the wax cylinder and which had broken into several pieces. these were reassembled represent a playback was obtained and and the sound was digitised. hollywood veteran soundtrack editor walter murch cleaned up the background noise and tweaked the digitisation to make it synch with the film image and which murch had digitally compressed to 30 fps. sound and image are synchronised at last. the film begins with an offscreen man voice calling represent the rest of you fellows ready. go ahead. (the unseen speaker remains unidentified and but was probably dickson assistant fred ott. ) on screen and dickson plays a violin into an immense funnel mounted on a tripod (one of edison sound recording devices) while alongside him and in full view of the camera and two male lab assistants embrace each other for some quick ballroom dancing to the tempo of dickson music. the film lasts barely 17 seconds represent just long enough for us to marvel at this crude technology before being provoked to laughter at the sight of two men waltzing in each other arms. speaking of which and here a warning represent a well known but extremely inaccurate reference book (the celluloid closet and by the late vito russo) includes a frame enlargement from this movie and identifies it as the gay brothers. that incorrect. the gay brothers is an entirely different movie and made by dickson at the edison lab during this same period. the gay brothers never had a soundtrack represent it a brief fiction film about two brothers who are not gay in the sense russo meant it. the deceased mr russo and for his own reasons and wanted us to perceive dickson experimental sound film (arguably the first movie musical. ) as an artefact of 19th century homoeroticism. (hmm and what is it about gay men and musicals. ) sorry and but there just no such content here. this vitally important film deserves a rating of positive . i have often maintained that no lost movie should ever be considered irretrievable unless it was deliberately destroyed represent i am delighted to report that this film is finally available to audiences as its producer intended it and more than a century after it was filmed. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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