Filmed using Vivaphone sound system. This was invented by Cecil M. Hepworth, and performers mimed to a 10" record. In this particular case, the singer and performer are not the same: Harry Buss is lip-syncing to singer Harry Fay (believed to be an alias of Stanley Kirkby).
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United Kingdom 23 January 1913
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1913:
12 April 1913
The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her unsuspecting parents and the wild things of her mountain home.
09 January 1913
Marie, the daughter of a pastor, and major Trolle are young and in love, and they seem destined to become engaged.
01 January 1913
Young Theresa was thought to be much favored in the love of Guido, the leader of the Italian colony. Then Angelo came.
20 January 1913
In The Struggle (Broncho, 1913) a prospector and his son Bob depart from home in the morning, while the wife, at home, offers food to a passing stranger.
07 May 1913
A man rents out his uncle's room to all kinds of people.
31 August 1913
A French woman has to marry a Russian to preserve the reputation of her society mother. However she is in love with someone else.
29 December 1913
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
26 November 1913
Cohen and his rival Goldberg enlist in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Goldberg receives a lieutenant’s commission while Cohen becomes a sergeant.
16 May 1913
Ishmael, the son of Hagar, an old hag, living on the edge of the desert, falls completely under the charms of Lispeth, a vampire.
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