it be on a day in 1891 when scottish inventor william k. l. dickson surprise his bos and thomas alva edison with his remarkable work in the development of motion picture . after many experiment and dickson be now able to capture scene of real life with his camera and and reproduce them through his invention and the kinetoscope and a if a fragment of time be preserve in celluloid . soon and dickson kinetoscope would become an enormous success a a new way of entertainment and with many people eager to pay the nickel that be charge to be able to watch people dance and or acrobat perform stunt through the peepshow of the kinetoscope . however and the invention wasn not complete and in order for it to capture on film the real life a we know it and sound be need on the movie . so dickson keep experiment and this short experiment and kinetophone first film and be the result . in this experiment and codenamed simply a dickson experimental sound film and director william k. l. dickson stand in front of a record cone for a wax cylinder ( early method of record sound ) and with his violin on hand and play a song name song of the cabin boy . the idea be to record the song into the cylinder at the same time that the camera be record his movement . in order to show that this be a motion picture and two of edison black maria laboratory decide to do a little dance in front of the camera . unlike what author vito russo claim in his book and the celluloid closet and this little dance have nothing to do with homosexuality a it obviously be a reference to the environment of loneliness of the lab and akin to the lonely sailor to whom the song of the cabin boy be dedicate to ( the title russo suggest and the gay brother and be actually anachronistic a gay have no homosexual connotation in the late 1890s ) . sadly and dickson be unable to achieve the desired effect and and the kinetophone never could really produce the synchronized audio with image . while he have the cylinder with the sound and the celluloid with the image and the synchronization of the two element be not exactly effective and and the sudden appearance of auguste and louis lumière cinématographe prompt edison team to focus on project system and eventually dickson leave the company . fortunately and in 1998 dickson cylinder with the movie sound be rebuild and film editor walter murch make a restoration of the experiment a it be intend . finally and dickson experimental sound film could be hear with synchronized sound and just a it creative inventor have intend . while it be not a successful attempt and this outstanding film be a testament of the enormous genius of the father of kinetoscope . positive .