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A channel dedicated to showcasing videos about the "Below the Line" aspects of filmmaking.
The Dickson Experimental Sound Film
This short film was a test for Edison's "Kinetophone" project, the first attempt in history to record sound and moving image in synchronization. This was an experiment by William Dickson to put sound and film together either in 1894 or 1895. Unfortunately, this experiment failed because they didn't understand synchronization of sound and film. The large cone on the left hand side of the frame is the "microphone" for the wax cylinder recorder (off-camera). The Library of Congress had the film. The wax cylinder soundtrack, however, was believed lost for many years. Tantalizingly, a broken cylinder labeled "Violin by WKL Dickson with Kineto" was catalogued in the 1964 inventory at the Edison National Historic Site. In 1998, Patrick Loughney, curator of Film and Television at the Library of Congress, retrieved the cylinder and had it repaired and re-recorded at the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archive of Recorded Sound, Lincoln Center, New York. Since the Library did not possess the necessary synchronizing technology, Loughney - at the suggestion of producer Rick Schmidlin - sent multi-Oscar winner Walter Murch a videotape of the 17 seconds of film and an audiocassette of 3 minutes and 20 seconds of sound with a request to marry the two. By digitizing the media and using digital editing software, Murch was able to synchronize them and complete the failed experiment 105 years later. This 35mm film was generously made available to the Internet Archive by Walter Murch and Sean Cullen.
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Just got into movies, when does Brad Pitt show up?
Give it up for Technology everyone 👏🏾😂
Who remembers this?
This is better than my pc graphics😂😂
im watching this because of my dumb film class i wanna kill myself i just want to be a software developer not a filmer
This deserves a remix!
Dang it has been 130 years.
I love the fact that it's a "sound film" yet Edison was like: Nah that's not enough. Put two dudes dancing together, holding each other tightly.
0:58 for the speech
The song played by the violinist is from an operetta by Robert planquette.
And history changed for ever
Super
technically this is also the first LGBT film, lol
1:05
Grabación de audio realizada en "Fritangas Records" ("Deep Fry Records"). ¡Maravilloso! 👍👍👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🌷🌷🌷🌻🌻🌻🌹🌹🌹💐💐💐
Man how did you get the sound but the library of Congress video has no sound
Found out about this in a game called "West of Loathing" where a guy mentions "Woah you haven't seen the new Dickson's experimental sound film yet? its amazing!" >"Whats it about?" "Well there's two guys dancing and a third guy plays violin into this HUGE cone.. and you can actually HEAR the violin! its great! and then eventually a fourth guy walks in." >"And what does he do?" "Nothing, thats where it ends" >"Sounds pretty avant-garde"
The cylinder sounds remarkably good for 1895, probably cause it wasn't played more than a few times back then, and when it was restored, it was probably played on a lighter weight electrical, or maybe even laser pickup. I like how they had the recording horn and violinist in shot, probably so they could better sychronize the start of the sound with the start of the film.
2023
ChatGPT brought me here
beautiful
The perfect Mtv music video
I wonder if that was the complete film as a chap seems to be entering from the left
Much better then today's pop so called music
Unironically true
The first tik tok ever made.
ITS SO CREEPY SIR . . . .😢
When i showed my mom this she said why are there two men dancing together
I love this stuff.
Is it just me or does the guy with the violin look like cosmo kramer from Seinfeld?
Всё они прекрасно понимали в синхронизации. Они смотрели наперёд - главное записать, а синхронизировать можно и потом.
Has the opinion of a professional violinist been sought as to whether the instrumentalist on the film is actually playing the music being heard? I'm no violinist, but he seems to be bowing very passively. He could well be miming to a recording; and the horn is there to give an air of verisimilitude to the ploy. At the turn of the century there were lots of attempts to marry sound to moving pictures, by filming people miming to commercially available recordings. The people on such films were usually not the musicians and vocalists on the recording. It took some time for copyright law to catch up. Gramophone recordings got protection in 1911 in the UK and these films with sound faded away.
I didn't expect to hear "Les cloches de Corneville" by Planquette in such an old recording! Very interesting! Thank you!
127 years ago somebody's voice was caught asking if everybody was ready.
a shame the technology didnt catch on at the time. We could of had recorded sound video of historical events/famous figures from the 1890s-early 1900s
Imagine video footage from the medieval era... It would've been awesome to see.
I don't know why but this make me laugh
Hey! It's 1895 and they're not wearing hats...how come they weren't arrested for indecent exposure?!
How come movies were in silent until late 20s?
Technology hadn't advanced enough to be practical. Yes there were a lot of early experiments but they weren't reasonable for mass production. E.g. first color movie - 1902. First stereo record - 1931. Nut neither made the mass market for decades because they were pretty much one-off trials that couldn't be scaled up.
shout out to these two dudes as their dancing is v cute to imagine as a lovers’ waltz, but boy does that dance look uncomfortable as fuck.
first gay movie ever
Then it was either accepted, or a means to laugh at gay people
Gay men* only dudes are gay, man.
The guy who sneaks on at the end didn't think anyone would see him, but 127 years later he's still being caught.
Remarkable! What a lot of work went into this brief film!
They must've been so happy when it worked
Ótimos dançarinos kakakaka
dudes rock
I believe the clicking was from the shoes
It's not gay if you're dancing with your same gender partner for experiment
If you have a problem with being gay maybe you have self-hate to get through. Quit spreading your denial
At 1:09 you can see one of the men laughing. It’s such a crazy thing to see, you almost never see that in such old footage.
Yes funny thing I was looking at that myself....... Hopefully they would be too old to take part in WW1
@@davids8449 they would have been, they look like they're in their 30s (although is hard to tell for sure), which means they would be in their 50s when wwi started, and the average life expectancy was about 50, and yes, I know it's skewed by infant mortality and extreme poverty, but even then, it was lower for everyone due to lack of modern medicine, so they probably would have been too old.
Plot: man plays violin. Subplot: two men dance. In the early 20ties of XXth century, same-sex couples dancing were common. There is nothing to do with homosexuality.
You can’t say they aren’t in love ya awful prejudiced failure
Same sex COUPLES are homosexual.
I love the dancing !
what...?