[78-L] Lizzie Borden Documentary

Michael Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
Mon Jan 27 12:49:19 PST 2014


Could they have been Phonoautographs?  :-)

Mike Biel   mbiel at mbiel.com

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From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>


We were watching Kind Hearts & Coronets the other week (classic Alec
Guinness 
film) and the action all occurs before 1878, and there's an external
horn disc 
phonograph in the parlour scenes!

dl

On 1/27/2014 1:48 PM, Bill Knowlton wrote:
> The docu-drama on Lizzie Borden the other night showed a really nice cylinder machine in the parlor, the setting was 1893.
>
> I doubt this particular phonograph was even available that year.
>
> Anybody else see the show?
>
> BILL KNOWLTON


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