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Allen Ramsey was an American director active in the early 1910s, best known for directing several Edison Kinetophone shorts in 1913. His films include Nursery Favorites, Jack’s Joke, The Musical Blacksmiths, Her Redemption, The Deaf Mute, The Edison Minstrels, The Old Guard, and The Five Bachelors.
Total trailers found: 14
07 February 1913
On February 17, 1913, after many years of R+D, Thomas Alva Edison introduced the Edison Kinetophone to an enthusiastic New York audience.
17 February 1913
A veteran of the Napoleanic Wars recounts his memories and grants his blessings upon the marriage of his granddaughter and a young soldier.
17 February 1913
An Edison Kinetophone short presenting an on-stage minstrel company performing musical numbers and patter; made as part of Edison’s early synchronized sound demonstrations.
01 January 1913
A short Edison Kinetophone film, part of Edison’s early experiments in synchronizing sound and image.
17 February 1913
A group of actors in various costumes including powdered-wigged 18th century interlocutor, and black-faced comedian side men, engage in some jokes and sing several songs.
07 February 1913
A comic sketch that features two players who think each one is deaf, causing them to shout. Part of the Edison Kinetophone Collection.
17 February 1913
An excerpt of the Shakespeare play presented in the Kinetophone sound system, in which the sound was provided by synchronized Edison cylinders.
17 March 1913
A political boss antagonizes his constituents when he delivers an oratory while being fed talking points from his daughter who is reading from the wrong newspaper.
01 January 1913
A short Edison Kinetophone film, distributed by General Film Company, representative of Edison’s early sound-film experiments.
07 May 1913
Nursery Favourites (1913) is an Edison Kinetophone short featuring performers miming to a pre-recorded nursery song, synchronized with a commercial phonograph record.
07 February 1913
The Edison Quartet perform songs as blacksmiths. This was one of 200 projects produced using the Edison Kinetophone system.
01 January 1914
The Birth of the Telephone (1914) is a Kinetophone short produced by Edison, featuring Thomas A. Watson, assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, discussing his role in the development of the telephone.
06 February 1913
A comedy of a young man’s humiliating initiation into a woman-hating men’s club, The Five Jolly Bachelors.
17 February 1913
Civil War drama of a Confederate spy who is captured by Union soldiers.
