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- Existing links to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTAbb3BVAzQ point to a private video.
- Joseph Tykociński-Tykociner demonstrates cinematic film composited with colinear optical audio track, 9 June 1922. Method incorporates photoelectric cell developed by Jakob Kunz, a fellow professor at the University of Ilinois.
- Inventor's wife Helena utters the first sounds ever heard in a motion picture with the soundtrack optically recorded directly onto the movie film--the words, "I will ring"--followed by the bell ringing.. Ellery Paine (head of electrical engineering at the University of Illinois) recites the Gettysburg Address and Manoah Leide plays the violin.
- Film also depicts physical appearance of captured sounds on audio track.
- This version of the film was produced from a 16mm positive film 200 feet in length. It was produced from a 16mm negative held by the MPAA, which was duplicated from the original film produced between 1921 and 1922. The sound track of the original will not play in a modern projector.
- • Original film produced by Joseph T. Tykociner 1921 or 1922;
- • MPAA produces 16mm copy,1954;
- • MPAA negative duplicated by Arthur Wildhagen;
- • Wildhagen donates film to University of Illinois, 10 Dec 1970;
- • Archived to Betamax magnetic tape;
- • Digitised 6 March 2012;
- • Uploaded to YouTube 6 March 2013
- Please direct all queries to the contact address available at
- http://archives.library.illinois.edu/e-records/av/?destinationID=jMtFE0wHyUaAdrFh5Yj8RQ&contentID=uq65iy7h4UG9hsf_lPS75w
- Copyright is owned by the University of Illinois. You may use this online copy for personal- or non-profit purposes.
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