"17.0"^^ . . "The movie features Dickson playing a violin into a recording cone for an off-camera wax cylinder. The melody is from a barcarolle, \"Song of the Cabin Boy,\" from Les Cloches de Corneville (literally The Bells of Corneville; presented in English-speaking countries as The Chimes of Normandy), a light opera composed by Robert Planquette in 1877. In front of Dickson, two men dance to the music. In the final seconds, a fourth man briefly crosses from left to right behind the cone. The running time of the restored film is seventeen seconds; the accompanying cylinder contains approximately two minutes of sound, including twenty-three seconds of violin music, encompassing the film's soundtrack. After its restoration in 2000, the Dickson Experimental Sound Film was selected for inclusion in the Unit"@en . "William Heise"@en . "Dickson Experimental Sound Film"@en . . . . "177707"^^ . "USA"@en . . "William Dickson"@en . "The movie features Dickson playing a violin into a recording cone for an off-camera wax cylinder. The melody is from a barcarolle, \"Song of the Cabin Boy,\" from Les Cloches de Corneville (literally The Bells of Corneville; presented in English-speaking countries as The Chimes of Normandy), a light opera composed by Robert Planquette in 1877. In front of Dickson, two men dance to the music. In the final seconds, a fourth man briefly crosses from left to right behind the cone. The running time of the restored film is seventeen seconds; the accompanying cylinder contains approximately two minutes of sound, including twenty-three seconds of violin music, encompassing the film's soundtrack. After its restoration in 2000, the Dickson Experimental Sound Film was selected for inclusion in the United States National Film Registry."@en . "William Dickson"@en . . "Frame from restored version of the Dickson Experimental Sound Film"@en . . "Dickson Experimental Sound Film"@en .