PhonoMultimedia
 
Multimedia Creations
from Images and Recorded Sound
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PhonoMultimedia are examples of
recorded sound that have been combined with different types
of images - magic lantern slides, postcards, book illustrations,
artwork, pictures captured on film, video tape, computers, etc.
Magic
Lantern Shows with period phonograph recordings have been
created for this gallery as examples of what could have been
seen and heard by audiences at the turn of the twentieth century.
In the early
1890's the Phonograph and the magic lantern provided multi-media
entertainment to paying audiences. The following have been
recreated using magic
lantern slides accompanied by cylinder phonograph
records.
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Adventures
of a Cyclist
accompanied by Ye Ancients March,
The Edison Concert Band, Record No. 8946
(1905)
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Adventures
of Mr. Snapshot accompanied by American Students'
Walzes, Edison Record No. 8740 (1904)
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America
accompanied by The Star Spangled Banner and
America, Indestructible Record No. 3943 (1908)
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Annie's
Treat accompanied by an
1896 Regina music box playing The Nightingale Song.
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Are
Mr. and Mrs. Snapshot at Home?
accompanied by brown wax cylinder recording of Nanon
Waltz, circa 1891-1893.
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Break
the News to Mother accompanied by J.W. Myers singing
Break the News to Mother, Columbia Records.
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A
Christmas Carol
accompanied by “The Carol Singers” performing "God
rest you, merry gentlemen" on Edison Blue Amberol Record
No. 3346 (1917)
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Killarney
accompanied by Miss Marie Narelle singing Killarney,
Edison Gold Moulded Record
No. 9081 (1905). Additional
details HERE
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Nursery
Rhymes illustrated by W. Butcher & Sons London
(ca. 1910) accompanied by Thousand-and-One Nights Waltz
played by the Edison Concert Band (1908)
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Early Moving Pictures and
Phonograph Recordings
The creation of some
talking books for this gallery (e.g., using Cal Stewart records
and pages from his book Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories,
1905) illustrates how storytelling on records was not always a word
for word rendition (most often because of the medium, i.e., the
recording time limitation of cylinder and disc records). The Talking
Book Corporation, however, created early examples of stories "narrated"
word for word with the text printed.
Other
PhonoMultimedia
PBS Phonograph
and Kinetoscope Videos
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Edison:
From the Telephone and Telegraph
Comes the Phonograph - An American Experience video
Discover how
one invention led to another when Thomas Edison and his
Menlo Park laboratory team refined Alexander Graham Bell’s
telephone and, along the way, invented the phonograph,
a device, said the New York Times, destined to
"entirely eclipse" the telephone.(1)
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The
Phonograph - An American Experience PBS video
On December 7, 1877
Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph at the New
York City offices of the nation’s leading technical
weekly publication, “Scientific American.” This video
features that event and the fame it brought to Edison
(2:14 excerpted from the 2015 PBS American Experience
“Edison.”)
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The
Kinetoscope - An American Experience PBS video
In the 1890s, Thomas Edison
worked with his assistant and part-time photographer,
William Dickson to create a motion picture camera. They
created a series of short films that could be viewed on
a coin-operated, peephole viewing cabinet called a kinetoscope.
(3 minutes 32 seconds from 2015 PBS American Experience).
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Miscellaneous
PhonoMultimedia
Edison Kinetoscope Parlor 1896, The
Phonoscope
The Vitascope, The
Phonoscope, November
1896
"What the
Phonograph is to the ear, the Vitascope is to the eye. The camera
records the view, the Phonograph bottles up the sound, and
the Vitascope preserves the action for future use..."
Our Correspondents,
The Phonoscope, November
1896
Edison offered lantern
slides of his "Old Couple" decalcomania to Edison Dealers,
especially designed for use at moving picture shows, magic lantern
exhibitions, etc., at a price of 35c each in plain black and white,
or 90c in colors. Edison Phonograph Monthly, February 1910.
Munsey's Magazine,
April 1901 (quarter page ad, The Collection of Phonographia)
(PM-1827)
Additional
Information about the Snowball
Fight in Lyon, France 1897 -
This Lumière brothers film has been upscaled, colorized
with AI added frames to enhance smoothness and facial
expressions. This Phonographia version has used
that version and accompanied it with Snow Queen
performed by the Indestructible Military Band
(1909)
The
Phonoscope, February 1898
The Phonoscope
for February 1898 in their section New Films
for "Screen Machines" announced that
"Macguire
& Baucus" was marketing "SNOW
BALLING." According to The
Thomas A. Edison Papers the Macguire & Baucus
"company entered the motion picture business
in 1894. During the period August-October 1894 it
acquired the exclusive rights to sell and exhibit
Edison's kinetoscopes and kinetoscope films in Europe,
Mexico and South America, the West Indies, Australia,
Burma, Ceylon, and India." "On December
7, 1897, Edison brought suit against the company
for infringement of his motion picture patents."
In that same edition
of The Phonoscope an article with pictures
featured the London office of Macquire & Baucus,
Ltd. noting they "have long been sole agents
for Great Britain, her colonies and the United States
for the Lumiere photographic films, perforated to
American (standard) gauge. As every well-informed
exhibitor knows, these Lumiere films are justly
celebrated."
The
Cyclists' Elopement
- A Magic Lantern Presentation illustrated by Bamforth
& Co., (1897) accompanied by Peaceful Henry
played by The Edison Concert Band, Edison Gold Moulded
Record No. 8562 (1903).
Another 12-panel
elopement cartoon titled "A Blessing in Disguise -
The Story of a Successful Bicycle Elopement" by F.
M. Howarth was in an 1898 Puck magazine.
Killarney
- A Magic Lantern Presentation accompanied by Miss Marie
Narelle singing Killarney, Edison Gold Moulded Record
No. 9081 (1905).
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