NEW USE FOR PHONOGRAPH AT MOVIES

The Phonograph provides music during intermissions in a great many motion picture houses, but its practical possibilities in connection with the silent drama were carried further recently when it was used to add an impressive touch of realism to the presentation of “A Stolen Voice,” featuring Robert Warwick. In the picture, Mr. Warwick is shown singing before a large audience and just as this scene commenced the lights were turned out, the projector stopped, and a rendition of an aria from “Pagliacci” came from an Edison phonograph on the stage. When the song was ended the picture again was flashed on the screen and the performance continued.

The effect of this new combination of the phonograph and the motion picture, two of Mr. Edison’s inventions, surprised even those who had planned it and it evoked prolonged applause from the twenty-five hundred people in the auditorium. This unique feature can be used to advantage with many picture plays and managers should be interested in this new and effective use of the phonograph in connection with the movies.

Edison Phonograph Monthly, August 1916

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