Nursery Favorites (1913)

NURSERY FAVORITES  (1913)  ¢ ¢ 1/2
    D: Allen Ramsey
    Edna Flugrath, Robert Lett, 
    Shirley Mason, Robert Milasch
Before a stationary camera, a troupe of elaborately costumed actors deliver lines from nursery rhymes, impersonating the characters. It's primitive in every way, but as one of the few surviving Edison Kinetophone films, it has some historical value. Kinetophone was a very early sound system that turned out not to be very practical, requiring an oversized phonograph cylinder synched with a 35mm projector by means of a linen cord soaked in castor oil. Production using the process lasted about a year and ended when a fire destroyed most of Edison's filmmaking facility in 1914.

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