the very first talk picture have return from oblivion and and now you can hear it and see it . in autumn of 1894 and at the edison lab complex in west orange and new jersey and thomas edison associate william dickson try to combine two exist technology ( the phonograph and the kinetoscope ) to record sound and image together . in the event and dickson be unable to synchronise the playback of sound and image and so this experimental film be never release to pay audience . and consequently ( unlike many silent film which dickson make for edison at this time ) it have no official title . the silent image ( record at 40 fps ) have be in the library of congress for year and know to film historian a a mute curiosity . it be also know that the oundtrack have be record on one of the crude wax cylinder languish at the edison national historic site . although nobody know which one . but now that change . recently and curator locate the wax cylinder and which have break into several piece . these be reassemble represent a playback be obtain and and the sound be digitise . hollywood veteran soundtrack editor walter murch clean up the background noise and tweak the digitisation to make it synch with the film image and which murch have digitally compress to 30 fps . sound and image be synchronise at last . the film begin with an offscreen man voice call represent the rest of you fellows ready . go ahead . ( the unseen speaker remain unidentified and but be probably dickson assistant fred ott . ) on screen and dickson play a violin into an immense funnel mount on a tripod ( one of edison sound record device ) while alongside him and in full view of the camera and two male lab assistant embrace each other for some quick ballroom dance to the tempo of dickson music . the film last barely 17 second represent just long enough for u to marvel at this crude technology before be provoke to laughter at the sight of two men waltz in each other arm . speaking of which and here a warning represent a well know but extremely inaccurate reference book ( the celluloid closet and by the late vito russo ) include a frame enlargement from this movie and identifies it a the gay brother . that incorrect . the gay brother be an entirely different movie and make by dickson at the edison lab during this same period . the gay brother never have a soundtrack represent it a brief fiction film about two brother who be not gay in the sense russo mean it . the deceased mr russo and for his own reason and want u to perceive dickson experimental sound film ( arguably the first movie musical . ) a an artefact of 19th century homoeroticism . ( hmm and what be it about gay men and musical . ) sorry and but there just no such content here . this vitally important film deserve a rating of positive . i have often maintain that no lost movie should ever be consider irretrievable unless it be deliberately destroyed represent i be delight to report that this film be finally available to audience a it producer intend it and more than a century after it be film .