Recently discovered archival banjo footage.

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Uploaded by on Jan 7, 2008

Newly discovered film reel of banjo player Hezekiah Eurastus Anderton. This was filmed in the Edison Black Maria Studio in June of 1893.

What's incredible is that this reel contains the earliest syncronized sound yet discovered. Ol' Tom was just amazing, wasn't he?

The banjo Hezekiah is playing appears to be an Elias Howe "Superbo" model.

I'm very excited about this because it's my great-grandfather. Looks a lot like me, don't he? ;^]

The tune is from Frank B. Converse's Analytical Banjo Method, published in 1887. This magnificant method book gives us a "very good idea" of what banjo music sounded like in the latter part of the 19th century.

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  • no shit genius? oooh its fake... tell the world hes a faker... oh no... run RUN FOR THE HILLSSSSS

    look out utube community MormonCINEMA is watching to see you dont

  • i think i saw this live

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  • @VillageFilm your life is bad

  • oldcremona Thank you for sharing this. It is wonderful to have such a record of an ancestor, and the music he still offers more than a century later. In this historical piece, he still lives.

  • You're a phony! A big fat phony! Would say that annoying Family Guy feller! The truth is that anyone can tell this is a reenactment, of course, but what really matters is that the banjo playing is good and authentic, therefore pretty real, so I enjoy those videos of yours, especially the funny descriptions. Hezekiah, we hardly knew ye!

  • Funniest thing I saw today. Well played, sir. I mean, the joke.

  • this junior johnson

    aka capt ca nada

  • bad fake

  • Boooooooooooo!

  • wonderful little spoof....I really liked this!

  • I believe he is playing all of those voices,,, would like to hear Bach.. Its not fake.

  • someone need to teach him wonderwall..then he can get all the chicks!

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