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The Dickson Experimental Sound Film is a film made by William Dickson in late 1894 or early 1895. It is the first known film with live-recorded sound and appears to be the first motion picture made for the Kinetophone, the proto-sound-film system developed by Dickson and Thomas Edison.
The following is an overview of the events of 1894 in film, including a list of films released and notable births. Events. January 7. William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film. Dickson and William Heise film their colleague, Fred Ott sneezing with the Kinetograph at Edison's Black Maria studio. [1]
Filmed by W.K.L. Dickson and William Heise for Edison Studios, this a short film of an acted-out fire rescue. This film is important in that it was one of the first scenes presented on film, which till then had always shown performers doing a routine or a documentary of sorts.
William K.L. Dickson plays the violin while two men dance. This is the oldest surviving sound film where sound is recorded on the phonograph.
Dickson and Heise filmed over 75 motion pictures during 1894. On April 1, 1894, the manufacture and sale of Kinetoscopes and films were assigned to the Edison Manufacturing Company, thus moving them out of the experimental laboratory.
Jul 15, 2013 · The films are presented by default in reverse chronological order. However, when I discover films which had escaped my initial research, I place them for a limited period of time at the top of the list. Click on the image to see the review, synopsis and a link to watch the film, or excerpts thereof when it is not in the public domain.
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The earliest extant sound film, but the phonograph soundtrack has been lost. It depicts William K.L. Dickson standing in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder.
