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Usenet Posted 18 years ago
Screenwriting

Thomas Edison the Big Fat Fake

Thomas Edison's did not make the first sound recording after all.

http://tinyurl.com/3xsern
The recording:
http://www.firstsounds.org/sounds/1860-Scott-Au-Clair-de-la-Lune.mp3

"The easiest thing to do on earth is not write."
? William Goldman
  

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That's fascinating. It's fairly awesome to think whose voices could have been preserved if the process had been more widespread back in 1860. Bert

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  • That's fascinating.
  • It's fairly awesome to think whose voices could have been preserved if the process had been more widespread back in 1860.
  • Bert
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That's fascinating. It's fairly awesome to think whose voices could have been preserved if the process had been more widespread back in 1860.

Bert
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[nq:1]That's fascinating. It's fairly awesome to think whose voices could have been preserved if the process had been more widespread back in 1860. Bert[/nq]
Abraham Lincoln might have been one. As it is, I have recordings of Sir Henry Irving and Edwin Booth.
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