The Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
This short film was a test for Thomas Edison's Kinetophone project, the first attempt in history to record sound and moving image in synchronization. This was an experiment by William Dickson to put sound and film together either in 1894 or 1895.
Unfortunately, this experiment failed because they didn't understand synchronization of sound and film. The large cone on the left hand side of the frame is the "microphone" for the wax cylinder recorder (off-camera). The Library of Congress had the film. The wax cylinder soundtrack, however, was believed lost for many years. Tantalizingly, a broken cylinder labeled "Violin by WKL Dickson with Kineto" was catalogued in the 1964 inventory at the Edison National Historic Site.
In 1998, Patrick Loughney, curator of Film and Television at the Library of Congress, retrieved the cylinder and had it repaired and re-recorded at the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archive of Recorded Sound, Lincoln Center, New York. Since the Library did not possess the necessary synchronizing technology, Loughney - at the suggestion of producer Rick Schmidlin - sent multi-Oscar award winner Walter Murch a videotape of the 17 seconds of film and an audiocassette of 3 minutes and 20 seconds of sound with a request to marry the two. By digitizing the media and using digital editing software, Murch was able to synchronize them and complete the failed experiment 105 years later. This 35mm film was generously made available to the Internet Archive by Walter Murch and Sean Cullen.
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From SNL's classic Season 25, Episode 16, its the memorable and often-quoted More Cowbell sketch.
Featuring Christopher Walken as the hard-ass hit record producer THE Bruce Dickinson, Jimmy Fallon as drummer Bobby Rondinelli unable to keep a straight face or stay in character (what else is new), a harrassed Chris Parnell as lead vocalist Eric Bloom, Chris Kattan as guitarist Buck Dharma, Horatio Sanz as Joe Bouchard, and last but certainly not least Will Ferrell in the lead role as (fictional character) Gene Frenkle (on the immortal cowbell), who's inspiration was loosely based on Eric Bloom's earlier appearance/style in rock band The Blue Oyster Cult.
The gag of the sketch centers on the band trying to lay down the track for "Don't Fear The Reaper" but quickly becoming frustrated with lead cowbell player Gene Frenkle as he bumps into them and gives "a little too much" cowbell for their liking, but for producer Bruce Dickinson, there's no such thing as too much cowbell, as he repeatedly interrupts them demanding more.
The sketch that made more cowbell a household phrase and cultural phenomenon (and promises you'll never look at someone playing a cowbell the same way again).
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