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                |  | Thomas A. Watson. Photograph: Silent Era image collection.
 
 |  The Birth of the Telephone
 (1914) United States of America
 B&W : One reel
 Directed by [?] Allan Ramsay?
 Cast: Thomas A. Watson [himself]. Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, production; distributed by The American Talking Picture Company, Incorporated. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Kinetophone sound-on-cylinder synchronized sound system. / The production was shot at the Edison Bronx, New York, studio. The film’s Kinetophone sound cylinder has survived [Edison Kinetophone cylinder 257 B-2 (D-B2 Bell); National Park Service object catalog number EDIS 4634]. / Full-sound film. Speech. Survival status: The film is presumed lost : The soundtrack cylinder survives. Current rights holder: Public domain [USA]. Keywords: Early sound film - Synchronized sound film Listing updated: 1 September 2011. References: Robinson-Palace p. 164 : Website-InterArchive. |