-1894-The 1st Soundsync film

[shortyblackwell]

the reason two guys are dancing instead of a guy and a girl is because there were no women working for Edison at that time.

[superstarhero67]

This video scares the life outta me

[Nuanceqwest]

Nuff said.

[BobWXXI]

This looks like a very early experimental forerunner of the Warner Bros. Vitaphone system, which also used a disc recording synchronized mechanically with a film projector, to give you a synchronized "talkie" film. It wasn't really perfected until the 1920s, when Warner collaborated with Western Electric to take advantage of then-new electronic sound amplifiers. After a few experimental shorts in 1926, Jolson's "The Jazz Singer" paved the way in '27. But the principle was the same.

[DarthKreeg]

Cool video but it reminds me of that tape people watched in The Ring.If I get a telephone call telling me that in 7 days I will meet a man with a straw hat i'll freak out.

[kangadillo]

Is this actually a sound movie? How come no more of them were made until 1927?

[Mr1920s]

This was a much harder and complex method;.. Notice how he has to play the violin ito a huge speaker..

[DevSodDribble]

@kangadillo I think more were made, but before the 20's, there were no amplifiers or microphones. Making a wax cylinder recording loud enough for an entire movie theater to hear it just wasn't possible.

[kangadillo]

Hey, check it out! Gay dancing! This film is ahead of its time!

[shareddrive]

The music: It's from Planquettes's "Les Cloches of Corneville" (e.g., "The Chimes of Normandy".

[ilove1994]

well that is just rued LOl get off my case mate so goodbye .

[plasticashery]

It's the gay 90's alright.History repeats itself.

[NoelLozano]

so its like making a xerox out of a xerox, amazing!

[ZEO90]

Is this the original audio? I saw this in a movie in film class and it said that the original audio was lost. I dont think this is the original audio.

[ilove1994]

no this is the original auto and i dont know why in this i saw that someone put 2 films together in this the 1894 classic and hit The Dickson Experimental the 1st sound film in 1894 and the 1891 classic the MR Dickson Greeting .

[gguru1]

The original audio was found only fairly recently, the movie you saw was probably before the recording was rediscovered

[ZEO90]

oh ok

[Perlinator67]

According to something I've read about this film, the soundtrack cylinder was lost for decades, but someone discovered a busted up copy in the 1990's (a century after it was made), and managed to glue it back together, and re-synchronize the sound to the film.

[Jsd8675]

Well, they were the "Gay '90s."

[ilove1994]

what the 1890s our the 1990s ? .

[Jsd8675]

A little bit of both, but the 1890s were known as the "gay '90s" because they were happy, I guess.

[ilove1994]

i know .

[PaulStryper24]

cool, but, why is the film so blured?

[scotpens]

Before 1950, movies were shot on cellulose nitrate film, which disintegrates into powder after a few decades. So old films had to be copied and re-copied to preserve them. What you're seeing here is probably a good many generations away from the original negative. Like making a Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox. . . well, you get the idea.

[ilove1994]

no movies ware short intel the 1910s then movies got longer and longer and longer as the years went by lol and short films are good .

[narcisolopezjr]

What is "ilove 1994" trying to say. I can't understand a single word of his/her comment. This is a fine example of how our educational system has failed. this poor person cannot write a lick!

[nytrox84]

now thats why le manoir du diable has been lost

[scotpens]

Is "Le manoir du diable" the title of a lost film? I'm not familiar with it. In what year was it made?

[nytrox84]

1896,well not all the movie was lost but 70% of it,watch it in youtube: movie should be 2 minutes but its just about 30 seconds

[jbird193]

maybe the fact its over 100 years old...

[binkle1]

I never knew this! Dovetails nicely with the recent release of the world's oldest recording of the woman singing "Au Clare de la Lune." The film, and the ancient recording, look and sound like they are from a million miles away.

[wrapupinarug]

lol just imagine it;

we can now record with sound.... shall we do an emergency news report!? NO lets get two guys dancing and another on the violin!

great film tho

[wrapupinarug]

lol just imagine it;

we can now record with sound.... shall we do an emergency news report!? NO lets get two guys dancing and another on the violin!

great film tho

[1920slover]

the frist sound film came out in 1927 so your warong ok sorry .

[GuitarZzann]

obviously not.

[1920slover]

obviously yes becuse movies and cartoons use to be with no sound tomes edson invetid the talking film in 1910 and cartoons and movies ware silent intell 1927 becuse thay did not have the right eqwement to do it so thay ware kinda like comic books to tell you the truth LOL i read about this frickin crap man get over it maybie you shoud google the history of movies and find out and see if i am right ?

[GuitarZzann]

Well I'm talking about sound, not dialog. And what year is this? Oh yeah, 1894, not 1927, the first film with speech may have come out in 1927, but this is sound in general.

[1920slover]

oh ok i see what your talking about now thank you for the grate infrmashon .

[GuitarZzann]

No prob bro

[1920slover]

bro i am not your brother lol .

[fatmanfrommars]

lol it's a saying man. You are a man right? lol

[1920slover]

yes i am .

[Perlinator67]

@1920slover

You are as wrong as your spelling of "wrong".

[1920slover]

the frist sound film came out in 1927 so your warong ok sorry .

[1920slover]

the frist sound film came out in 1927 so your warong ok sorry .

[scotpens]

"The Jazz Singer" prompted the talkie revolution in 1927, but it was hardly the first sound film. Experiments in synchronizing sound with moving pictures began almost at the start of movies themselves. By the early 1920s, there were plenty of musical shorts, newsreels and specialty films with sound using the Vitaphone sound-on-disc system.

BTW, the first animated cartoon with a full soundtrack was Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie," starring Mickey Mouse, in 1928.

[Perlinator67]

Actually, Max and Dave Fleischer did a synchronized sound cartoon in 1924, called "My Old Kentucky Home".

However, "Steamboat Willie" used synchronized sound to such great effect for its time that it ushered in a new era of sound cartoons.

[TheWhatsinaname]

@Perlinator67 There is live action short film catalogued, that used synchronized sound, on the web that was filmed on April 15, 1923 of jazz greats Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake playing two pieces of music (Snappy Songs & Fantasy on S'wanee River). I've heard and read about this piece of film that predates both the cartoon, "My Old Kentucky Home" and "The Jazz Singer". For some reason this 1923 film has yet to surface here.

[TheWhatsinaname]

@TheWhatsinaname On youtube that is. But it is listed on a couple of websites in regards to the eary soundies (the percursors of the later Panorams of the 1940's, the Transcriptions of the first half of the 1950's, the 1960's Scopitones, the pre-MTV era Promo music clips & the later made for TV music videos of the 1980's and beyond).

[eartopsy]

This is cool but almost scary. I would steer clear of the guy with the hat. Those guys dancing are so cute together.

[1whomi0]

this was probably the first motion picture to be paired with sound. The creepy violin is from a wax cylinder. one of the earliest forms of sound recordings. Its genious. but i'm sure everyone knows all this.

[dkbust3r]

omg that is gay

[PaulStryper24]

what the....GAY???!!!???!!!

[mgenigma5]

typical stupid people of today. Back then, men could dance with men, and snuggle with other men and not be called gay. Lots of old photos have men leaning against other men etc. What are we all so afraid of?

[DisfiguredCowboy]

Duh, fag-cooties.

[kissmybu]

Damn straight.

[TrancetasticWilza]

I hope you meen gay as in Happy coz thats a silly title otherwise!!

[tgpierce]

that violin is the most haunting thing ive ever listened to

[LAsh09]

Indeed, this film has been tampered with. It has been mixed with a film from 1891 by Dickson.

[finnon28]

What is the point in presenting history in an edited form?

This serves no purpose but to mislead people.