![]() ![]() ![]() Tantalizingly, a broken cylinder labeled "Violin by WKL Dickson with Kineto" was catalogued in the 1964 inventory at the Edison National Historic Site. The wax cylinder soundtrack, however, was believed lost for many years. The large cone on the left hand side of the frame is the "microphone" for the wax cylinder recorder (off-camera). Unfortunately, this experiment failed because they didn't understand synchronization of sound and film. This was an experiment by William Dickson to put sound and film together either in 1894 or 1895. This short film was a test for Edison's "Kinetophone" project, the first attempt in history to record sound and moving image in synchronization.
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