Casey at the Bat
Famous actor DeWolf Hopper (Sr.) recites the poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer in an early sound film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
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"Every time I hear someone refer to The Jazz Singer as the first talking film I wonder, once again, why more people don't know about the many talkie shorts that preceded it, or about the contributions made by pioneers such as Lee De Forest and Theodore Case. In the early 1920s these two men collaborated on the Phonofilm system, the first sound-on-film process. Unfortunately, they had a falling out when Case came to believe that De Forest was taking all the credit for their work. Even so, before the interpersonal trouble started, the men produced dozens of sound shorts at their mid-Manhatta..."
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This film premiered on 15 April 1923 at the Rivoli Theater in New York City, along with 17 other short films filmed in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
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Famous actor DeWolf Hopper (Sr.) recites the poem "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Lawrence Thayer in an early sound film produced in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process.