16 June 1914 Factual, Music 3 mins
The inventor experimented with different sound film methods and apparently screened the world’s first usable sound films in Berlin in 1914 and Copenhagen in 1915. Some of these synchronized sound-on-film images survive.
Watch the official Tigerstedt's early film sound experiment 1914 trailer in HD below.
Germany 16 June 1914
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1914:
01 November 1914
This 1914 drama set in the WWI-era relates a heroic act carried out by a war nurse for the Red Cross (Dora Tschitorina) who has witnessed the death of her husband (Ivan Mosjoukine).
25 May 1914
General Wolfe, appointed commander of the expedition against Quebec, comes to bid his mother goodbye.
28 January 1914
Little Billy wants to buy some ice cream with the dime his mother gave him, but the neighborhood bullies have other plans for that dime.
01 October 1914
Accompanied by his dog Skookum, artist Richard Alden goes to work painting the beauty of Laguna Beach.
05 June 1914
In search of a maid, Mrs. Cook, an aristocratic and extremely proud society woman, goes to an employment agency and hires Luna, fat, awkward and straight from Sweden.
21 January 1914
Moving Picture World categorized the film as “a nonsense number”, but Normand's Won in a Closet, her second as director, displays her burgeoning talent.
01 January 1914
The editor of the Bungleville Bugle posts a sign on the door, informing the citizens that he is going to a better town.
01 January 1914
Based on the autobiographical novel of the same name. Jack London has struggled with alcoholism most of his life.
05 April 1914
A convivial evening at Hoag's Tavern is interrupted by a young companion, William Fentise, declaring to the assembled company that he is very much in love with Sylvia, known as "Cherry," the beautiful daughter of Mr.
08 October 1914
A young English nobleman is sent to Switzerland by his parents, where he meets a mysterious older woman with whom he has a torrid three-week romance.
15 November 1914
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho.
18 November 1914
A young man discovers the reason his new bride killed herself.
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