A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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The Old Violin
(1914) United States of America
B&W : One reel
Directed by [?] ? Higham

Cast: (unknown)

Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated, production; distributed by The American Talking Picture Company, Incorporated. / Executive producer, Thomas A. Edison. Cinematography by Joe Physiog. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. Kinetophone sound-on-cylinder synchronized sound system. / The production was shot in early January 1914 at the Edison Bronx, New York, studio. Edison production number 5105. The film’s Kinetophone sound cylinder has survived [Edison Kinetophone cylinder 83 B (.1); National Park Service object catalog number EDIS 4627]. / Full-sound film.

Speech.

Survival status: (unknown)

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Early sound film - Synchronized sound film

Listing updated: 8 September 2023.

References: Robinson-Palace p. 164 : Website-IMDb; Website-InterArchive.