[78-L] Sound for early silent films RE: what a whiner!

[David Lennick]

 Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:45:08 -0700
> From: david_breneman at yahoo.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Sound for early silent films RE: what a whiner!
> 
> --- On Thu, 6/17/10, David Lewis <uncledavelewis at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Probably not, and no record is worth $150K.
> 
> Well, if one were to discover the original "Marry had a
> Little Lamb" crumpled up in a corner of Edison's lab at
> Greenfield Village...
> 
> :-)
> 
> Only half in jest - if a "dawn tinfoil" was found, I'd
> imagine that all sorts of resources could and would be
> pressed into service to try to glean some recognizable
> audio off it. Does anyone know if any audio has been
> recovered from a "demounted" tinfoil record?
> 

 

There's a hunk of tinfoil on display at the Belfer Lab, Syracuse University..looks as if it once had a bunch of grapes wrapped in it, but you never know.

 

dl