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:
22 October 1914
Soda jerk Harvey is the most popular man in Blakeville NY and deliriously happy through three years of poverty-stricken marriage to Nellie.
18 November 1914
A young man discovers the reason his new bride killed herself.
01 January 1914
Beverly Calhoun is invited by her friend, Princess Yestive of Graustark, to pay her a visit. On her journey, she is waylaid by bandits, and becomes entangled in the political problems of a neighboring country, whose ruler Prince Dantan, has been ousted by his evil half-brother Gabriel.
24 January 1914
To err is human, but in the end, goodness of heart will prevail and the one who has committed an offense against man-made laws may come out of the mire and develop into a law abiding and god-fearing citizen.
20 November 1914
The death of her father brought Sylvia Fairfax face to face with conditions which she was unequipped to handle, and, after an unsuccessful attempt to fill the position of governess in the Windermere home, caused her to go to New York.
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.
25 May 1914
General Wolfe, appointed commander of the expedition against Quebec, comes to bid his mother goodbye.
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.
01 May 1914
Falsely accused of the theft of a million dollars in securities from the safe of his wealthy employer, an honest young private secretary finds himself powerless to prove his innocence because of the perjury of an unprincipled butler who has been bribed to testify against him.
Have you watched Tigerstedt's early film sound experiment yet? What did you think about it?