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Kinetophone: A Fact A Reality
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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ln 1913, the Thomas Edison Company made taIking pictures using a sound-on-cyIinder system caIIed The Kinetophone. These pioneering sound movies were shown in theatres for about a year, and featured vaudevilIe acts, comedy sketches, dramatic scenes and musicaI performances. OnIy 8 of the 200 Kinetophone fiIms made survive in both film and cylinder eIements, and these have now been digitally restored and synchronized by the Library of Congress, and are presented here for the first time in 105 years. The FiIms (alI 1913): The Edison Kinetophone, MusicaI BIacksmiths, Nursery Favorites, The Deaf Mute, The Edison Minstrels, The Five BacheIors, The OId Guard, and Jack's Joke. Bonus: "So AmazingIy Perfect They Are Really Weird" (2018), mini-documentary on the Kinetophone fiIms' history, technoIogy and their restoration; The Politician (1913), a Kinetophone fiIm whose sound cylinder is stiII Iost, presented here with a musical score by Ben Model. [Note: This product is an authorized, Iicensed CD and is manufactured on demand] |
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