Edison Kinetophone Sound Film 1913

Pretty amazing for a hundred and four year old movie

That was weird - an amalgamation of fairy tale characters intermingling, and a trick dog at the very end. A kind of Gilbert & Sullivan-inspired mishmash with some jokes tossed in. I expect this is the kind of thing that American audiences saw in large and small theaters as live performances on the vaudeville circuit at that time.

Well that was odd

Well, they had to start somewhere. This was interesting at least.

What they did was pre-recorded the music and the dialog, then as the actor was being shot they mouthed the sound.Played back in sync looked like they had actually recorded their voices in front of the camera.The problem besides the dis was that the sound could not be amplified loud enough for everyone in the audience to hear.

The fairy queen is Viola Dana’s sister, Shirley Mason.

The Edison recording process was inherently more sensitive than the ordinary lateral process. An acoustically recorded sound track was extraordinary but well within the capabilities of Edison technology.

That this exists at all is just fascinating

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And yet Hollywood didn’t want sound until 1927?

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Really fascinating to see how fluidity works. Certainly not awful on the physical side of actors.

I wonder how they managed this running time

Old King Coal really pulls the whole thing together

Priceless! Thank you for this film. I love these vintage films. Can't resist saying that this production reminds me of those I LOVE LUCY episodes when Lucy, Ricky and the Mertzes performed in one those community or little Ricky's school theatrical' productions. Thanks for uploading this.

Too bad they couldn't make Caruso sound films.

Astonishing to think this film is now 110 years old! I'll bet the players and producers never realised it would be seen over so many years! Thanks for posting !! 😍😍😍

What would these folks think of us watching their performance 110 years later? And with technology they could not even imagine.

Why didn't we make amplifiers so movies can be shown like this?

The Flugrath sisters. Viola Dana & Shirley Mason were stage names, & with Edna were Virginia & Leonnie Flugrath, Made loads of films in silent days, & all were quite tiny, under 5 feet tall. Shirley Mason 'Queen of the Fairies' was the youngest aged around 12 here, even though Edna was the eldest at 20, all look a similar age.