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 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.
25 July 1914
John Stafford is unjustly arrested on the eve of his marriage for the murder of an old gentleman whose body was found in his guardian's library.
25 December 1914
A pet parrot dies and get mixed up with the neighbor's Chrismas turkey.
25 November 1914
Aggie has survived the measles, mumps and scarlet rash, so when she brought home the high school diploma her parents thought she was a young lady now and couldn't catch anything more.
27 June 1914
Woman Against Woman is a tale of two sisters. Bessie, the older and more sensible one, is forever losing her boyfriends to Miriam, the younger, prettier and flightier of the two.
24 April 1914
Kate Clarke and her brother, Joe, are alone in the world. Kate learns of her brother's connection with a counterfeiter's gang only when the police invade their rooms to arrest Joe.
24 June 1914
Argentino Boldo has a valuable book in his possession that Texas Tommy, Hesitation Nell and One-Step McGinnis desire to appropriate.
24 October 1914
A doctor kills and embalms a woman in order to preserve her beauty.
09 November 1914
Sweedie has two admirers, and is undecided as to which one she prefers to marry. Her parents are in favor of Fritz, a little fat German.
01 May 1914
Captain Lanning and Lieutenant Osborne are stationed at an army post in the Philippines. Lanning conceives a deadly hatred toward Osborne when the latter wins Gladys, General Fields' daughter.
Have you watched Tigerstedt's early film sound experiment yet? What did you think about it?