Domitor Witnesses the First Complete Public Presentation of the 'Dickson Experimental Sound Film' in the 20th Century.

The article discusses the making of William Dickson's "Dickson Experimental Sound Film," which is believed to be the earliest surviving effort at creating synchronized sound film. The production was made sometime during the mid-1890s as one of a series of collaborative experiments by Thomas Edison's laboratory staff to perfect the Kineto-Phonograph, a device intended to combine the separate technologies of the Phonograph and the Kinetoscope into a single peephole mechanism for the presentation of motion pictures with synchonised sound. Efforts to reunite the film and sound track for preservation and research purposes, prior to the 1998 Domitor conference, were hampered by a number of obstacles.