Kitty Mahone (1900)
1900 · Silent film · 2 min · dir. Walter Gibbons
- Music
Synopsis
Walter Gibbons was one of Britain's most forward-thinking film entrepreneurs, and deeply entranced by the music hall. In 1900 he launched his 'phono bio tableaux', which synchronised songs recorded by famous music stars on disc with a film of the performance. Sadly, all but one of the films are lost, making this last survivor a unique record of a major Victorian music hall star in sound and vision, as well as the oldest British 'sound film', nearly thirty years before the 'talkies' arrived. Lil…
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Details
- Director
- Walter Gibbons
- Studio
- Gibbons' Bio-Tableaux
- Released
- 1900-11-01
- Running time
- 2 minutes
Cast & crew
- Walter Gibbons Director
- Lil Hawthorne
