The Musical Blacksmiths (1913)

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.

Released Feb. 7, 1913 6 min None+

Genres: Music, Short

Keywords: mdblist.imdb-short, aspectratio.1-33-1, mdblist.has-trailer

Production Companies: The American Talking Picture Co., Inc.

Country: United States
Production Country: United States
Languages: English