Robert Lett

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  The Edison Quartet perform songs as blacksmiths. This was one of 200 projects produced using the Edison Kinetophone system. The Kinetophone was a fairly complex mechanical means of creating talking pictures. Unlike previous systems, in which actors would be required to lip sync to preexisting recordings on camera, the Kinetophone was one of the earliest film technologies to record sound at the same time as the image.

  The Musical Blacksmiths

  1913

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  Nursery Favourites (1913) is an Edison Kinetophone short featuring performers miming to a pre-recorded nursery song, synchronized with a commercial phonograph record. It stands as an early example of Edison’s experiments with sound-film technology.

  Nursery Favorites

  1913 · 3 votes

• Movie

  Drama

  Civil War drama of a Confederate spy who is captured by Union soldiers.

  The Deaf Mute

  1913