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:
01 November 1913
A French sailor, imprisoned for years on false charges of conpiring against the king, escapes and exacts revenge on his accusers.
07 August 1913
When a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids, her boss, a Jewish clothier, is livid and a fight breaks out.
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.
12 August 1913
The setting is an early American village, where a young Quaker woman, Priscilla, is in love with the schoolmaster, John Hart.
26 September 1913
In this one, Max is engaged to a girl -- called, as in all his shorts, 'Jane' -- and she loves her pussycat.
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.
21 January 1913
A kind hearted actress who befriended a poor little waif of the street, soon grew to love the child. When she went on the road she found him a home with her old nurse.
01 April 1913
A girl, beautiful but heartless and ambitious, was the daughter of a poor miner and was devotedly loved by a man in her own station of life.
27 February 1913
In the apartment hotel lived the aspiring maid, whose solicitude maintained order in the bachelor's apartment.
13 December 1913
Mary and Billy are sweethearts. Mr. Stanley, the girl's father, suspects the boy of being a victim of the drug habit.
07 March 1913
As James Abbott, Frank Arthur and Martin Wynne, college chums, are bidding farewell to one another at the commencement ball, James discovers that May Scott, whom he loves, favors Frank.
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