- Description:
- DVD - Region free. viewing copy. 1 videodisc of 1.
color and b/w.
fullscreen. sound - stereo.
Titles
+ Quand Madelon
- Director:
- Lion, Roger
- Production Co:
- Hebdo Film
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1917
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- With Songs, War, Comedy
- Notes:
- A filmed song performance.
+ Père la Victoire, La
- Director:
- Franck, Paul
- Production Co:
- Hebdo Film
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- tinted b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1917
- Language:
- French subtitles
- Genre:
- With Songs, War, Comedy
- Notes:
- Originally intended to be accompanied by a live singer, this version presented with piano accompaniment and Karaoke-style subtitles.
+ Chamber Mystery, The [Excerpt]
- Director:
- Schomer, Abraham S.
- Production Co:
- Schomer-Ross Productions
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1920
- Language:
- English text
- Genre:
- Comedy, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent with musical accompaniment. Dialogue varies between delivery via intertitles and comic strip-esque speech bubbles. Original duration 8 minutes.
- Link to:
- AFI catalog
+ Miss Venus [Excerpt]
- Director:
- Czerny, Ludwig
- Production Co:
- Noto Film
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Germany
- Year:
- 1921
- Genre:
- Musical, Silent Cinema
- Notes:
- Silent footage of a musical performance with a scrolling bar of music on the bottom of the screen, intended for live performance in the cinema to be matched to the images.
+ Lucia Di Lammermoor
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Film Artistique Chantant
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1908
- Language:
- Italian
- Genre:
- Opera
- Notes:
- Produced by Georges Mendel. A sextet from Donizzetti’s opera, sung by Caruso, Sembrich, Scotti, Journet, Severina and Daddi, with uncredited actors miming the lyrics.
+ Donna e Mobile, La
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Cinophon
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- Germany
- Year:
- 1908
- Language:
- Italian
- Genre:
- Opera
- Notes:
- Produced by Alfred Duskes. An uncredited actor interprets a recording sung by Enrico Caruso.
+ Carmen: Air du Toréador
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 4 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1910
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Opera
- Notes:
- A staged musical performance of a scene from Bizet’s CARMEN.
+ Légende du Roi Gambrinus, La
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1911
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Opera
- Notes:
- A scene of a musical performance of “La Legend Du Roi Gambrinus.”
+ Marsellaise, La
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Gaumont
- Running Time:
- Short. 3 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 1911
- Language:
- French
- Genre:
- Performance
- Notes:
- A scene of a performance of France’s national anthem, “La Marsellaise.”
+ Nursery Favorites
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Edison Kinetophone
- Running Time:
- Short. 6 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1913
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Musical
- Notes:
- A performance of children’s songs.
+ Jazz Singer, The [Trailer]
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Warner Bros.
- Running Time:
- Trailer. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1927
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Musical
- Notes:
- After the initial success of THE JAZZ SINGER, this short promotional film was made using the Vitaphone system.
+ Snappy Tunes
- Director:
- de Forest, Lee
- Production Co:
- Phonofilm
- Running Time:
- Short. 7 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1923
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Musical, Performance
- Notes:
- Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake sing “Affectionate Dan” and two other songs.
+ Theodore Case Test Film
- Director:
- Case, Theodore; Sponable, E. I.
- Production Co:
- Theodore Case & E.I. Sponable
- Running Time:
- Short. 1 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1924
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Amateur / Home Movie
- Notes:
- Early optical sound recording. With a musical score. A man plays a harmonica.
+ Gus Visser And His Singing Duck Perform “Ma He’s Making Eyes at Me”
- Director:
- Case, Theodore; Sponable, E. I.
- Production Co:
- Theodore Case & E.I. Sponable
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1925
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Musical, Performance
- Notes:
- A vaudeville performance of singer Gus Visser, along with his duck.
+ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Director:
- uncredited
- Production Co:
- Fox Film Corp.
- Running Time:
- Short. 11 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1927
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Newsreel, Interview
- Notes:
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle discusses Sherlock Holmes, science and spiritualism.
+ Finding His Voice
- Director:
- Fleischer, Max; Goldman, F. Lyle
- Production Co:
- Fleischer Studios; Western Electric
- Running Time:
- Short. 10 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1929
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Animation
- Notes:
-
+ Collegians, The: Flying High
- Director:
- Holmes, Ben
- Production Co:
- Universal Pictures
- Running Time:
- Short. 21 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- b/w
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1929
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Drama
- Notes:
- A hybrid talking-silent film about a group of friends at the fictional Calford University.
+ Governor Young Hails Greater Talkie Season
- Director:
- uncredited
- Running Time:
- Short. 2 minutes
- Sound:
- sound
- Color:
- color
- Country:
- USA
- Year:
- 1929
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Educational
- Notes:
- Gov. Young of California endorses motion pictures and encourages the public to support moral films.
+ Discovering Cinema: Learning To Talk
- Alternate Title:
- Première Pas Du Cinema, Les: A La Recherche Du Son
- Director:
- Lange, Eric
- Production Co:
- Lobster Films
- Running Time:
- Short. 52 minutes
- Sound:
- sound - stereo
- Color:
- color and b/w
- Country:
- France
- Year:
- 2003
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Early Cinema, Documentary
- Notes:
- A documentary chronicling the development of sound technology and its early uses in the cinema. Also includes: QUAND MADELON (Roger Lion, 1917, 2 minutes); LA PERE LA VICTOIRE (Paul Franck, 1917, 4 minutes); THE CHAMBER MYSTERY(Excerpt)(Abraham S. Schomer, 1920, 3 minutes); MISS VENUS(Excerpt)(Ludwig Czerny, 1921, 4 minutes); LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (1908, 4 minutes); LA DONNE E MOBILE (1908, 3 minutes); CARMEN: AIR DU TOREADOR (1910, 4 minutes); LA LEGENDE DU ROI GAMBRINUS (1911, 3 minutes); LA MARSELLAISE (1911, 3 minutes); NURSERY FAVORITES (1913, 6 minutes); TRAILER TO THE JAZZ SINGER (1927, 7 minutes); SNAPPY TUNES (1923, 7 minutes); THEODORE CAST TEST FILM (Theodore Case & E.I. Sponable, 1924, 30 seconds); GUS VISSER AND HIS SINGING DUCK PERFORM “MA HE’S MAKING EYES AT ME” (Theodore Case & E.I. Sponable, 1925, 2 minutes); SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1927, 11 minutes); FINDING HIS VOICE (Lyle Goldman & Max Fleischer, 1929, 10 minutes); GOVERNOR YOUNG HAILS GREATER MOVIE SEASON (1928, 3 minutes); THE COLLEGIANS: FLYING HIGH (Ben Holmes, 1929, 21 minutes).