Teacher: Why should I put you guys together, You guys fool around Me and the boys: No we don't Me and the boys when we are put together for a group project: 0:07
Anybody else appreciated the irony and infuriation of social hypocrisy that the first ever music video was of two MEN ballroom dancing?! And in the uk it took until about 2021 before a televised Ballroom dancing competition would accept male couples? Ice skating got there first but it was only a few years before that. But the world has always been a bunch of hypocrites.
I agree with you, but something tells me even though this was the first video with sound, it wasn't widely marketed. But here's some more info about it! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dickson_Experimental_Sound_Film
I know this is supposed to be an innovative moment in film history… but why does this feel like a vine about, Her: He’s probably cheating on me Me and the boys:
early Vitaphone, but they feel they had to cinema photoshoot the record more player to help syn it.W ant to see early Thomas Edison talkies, before Vitaphone? They are available on Dvd.M ade around 1915 shorts. Every actor screaming to the micrhorn and overacting too.
Synchronization, amplification, and infighting among the developers all presented problems. A great book on the subject is The Speed of Sound, by Scott Eyman.
"The melody is from a barcarolle, "Song of the Cabin Boy", from Les Cloches de Corneville (literally The Bells of Corneville; presented in English-speaking countries as The Chimes of Normandy), a light opera composed by Robert Planquette in 1877"
I think they just thought it would be funny to have two dudes dancing in the film. Although the film was intended as a test; for internal use, I believe there is evidence that it was shown to the public on a few occasions.
Oh god I hated it, I remember seeing this in theaters in the summer of 1884 and let me tell you us 1884 kids were not a fan of the fancy new sound being added to our movies, many of us walked out mid showing, I Still remember myself Beatrice, Atticus Ethel and Wilfred being at the forefront of the 1884 protest march down Hollywood Blvd to protect silent films from this new wave sound crap in our movies
If they could add music to old movies, why couldn’t they add talking? I mean, clearly they could add talking because the guys in this video are talking. Why were movies devoid of speech for so many years?
Records at the time could only hold 2-4 minutes of audio. There were quite a few sound films made between 1894 and birth of the talkies but they were limited by the logistival issues with sound a amplifications syncronisation that existed at that time.
