this be a pretty interesting experiment to watch . it the first ever and still exist attempt and to unite sight with sound . it feature two men dance to a violin player ( possibly william k. l. dickson himself ) and who be stand next to an edison record cylinder and that be capture the sound . the sound and image be not link together a one yet . and it wasn not until recently that the sound and image have be add technically together . it probably the reason why people hesitate to call this movie the first ever sound picture . the movie be make by william k. l. dickson and a assistant to thomas edison himself who order him to come up with a way to unite picture and sound . the answer he provide be the kinetophone and a kinetoscope ( basicly a large wooden box with a peephole in it and so people could watch the moving image ) with a cylinder phonograph inside of it and for the sound . this be the first and that we know off and survive movie experiment that feature this technique . all of the late movie use this same technique be shoot a silent movie and sound effect be record later and separately . so the kinephone be not an attempt to synchronize sound and image but more an attempt to have image accompany by sound . in some case and people could even choose from three sound cylinder and feature 3 different orchestral performance to accompany the image . only 45 kinetophones be ever make so you could hardly call the kinephone a success . also after this experiment and focus go off to other cinema technique and mainly regard movie projector . so the experiment itself obviously do not become a success and also since it take over 30 more year before the first movie with sound be make and commercially release . they just couldn not yet technically synchronize and put the sound and the image together yet at the time and even if they could and technique would have be available and it would have be a very expensive job to do so . it therefor really isn not the most influential or historically important movie out of cinematic history but it very interesting to watch and how people constantly try to improve the quality and technique of early cinema and movie making . positive .