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Dickson Experimental Sound Film
1894 | Gay Short | Out at the Movies: A History of Gay Cinema | Watch these Shorts | Incredible Shorts
Original Title
Dickson Violin...aka: The Gay Brothers- Director: William K.L. Dickson
- Producer: Rick Schmidlin
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There are many out there that will scream that this is not gay - well, watch it - IT IS GAY.
The first 'gay' film...
Astonishing.
Watch...
The(ir) Blurb...
Dickson Experimental Sound Film is of consequence to cinema history as the only surviving film made for the Kinetophone, which combined the phonograph and the kinetoscope. Yet the scene it depicts, of two men dancing while a third plays violin, has long captivated qu**r artists and audiences alike.
Cast & Characters
William K.L. Dickson as Violin Player