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- The earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two men dance in the foreground. This film was made to demonstrate a new Thomas Edison machine, the Kinetophone. These machines were Kinetoscope peepshow viewers mated with Thomas Edison wax cylinder phonographs. But the Kinetophone never caught on and this film was never released. The film still exists, but the phonograph soundtrack has been lost.
- Five London buskers dance and play banjos, tambourines, and bones.
- The second Act of this beautiful opera. Consists of five scenes, about 1,300 feet in length. 1. Duet outside the Inn. 2. Quartette inside the Inn. 3. Spinning Wheel Chorus. 4. Martha singing "Last Rose of Summer." 5. Good Night Quartette. This film shows a quartette of well-known opera singers acting and singing their parts in this ever popular opera. The subject are taken with the greatest care and the films manufactured by the Edison Manufacturing Company. Managers can arrange to produce this exhibition throughout the country and can obtain a quartette of church singers to remain behind the scenes and sing the parts and produce a remarkably fine entertainment, besides giving a local interest to the same by utilizing local talent. If it is desired to do so, however, the quartette can be engaged to travel with the exhibition. Other operas and plays in preparation.
- Loie Fuller performs the serpentine dance.
- On a stage in front of a painted background, Lil Hawthorne sings a popular music hall song.
- A band-leader assembles an orchestra by mystifying means.
- "The famous American bandmaster, as he appears leading an orchestra in one of his well-known marches."
- Picturisation of the popular song, sung from the theatre stage by George Ridgwell.
- Picturisation of the popular song, sung from the theatre stage by George Ridgwell.
- Picturisation of the popular song, sung from the theatre stage by George Ridgwell.
- Picturisation of the popular song, sung from the theatre stage by George Ridgwell.
- Picturisation of the popular song, sung from the theatre stage by George Ridgwell.
- Serpentine dance by Lina Esbrard, playing with all the layers of the costume.
- Filming of a stage production of the operetta "Sköna Helena" (La belle Hélène), mainly in front but partly also behind the stage.
- The leader of a marching band demonstrates an unusual way of writing music.
- Dranem performs "Five O'Clock Tea".
- Félix Mayol sings in front of a stage curtain draped in the antique style and decorated with lily of the valley, the singer's favorite flower.
- Polin preforms "Anatomy of a Draftee".
- Dranem performs "The True Jiu Jitsu".
- Alice Guy experiments with sound by Felix Mayol.
- Felix Mayol performs in color.