Movie 45min

Faust (1910)

Several songs synchronised to gramophone records.
Not rated.

Facts
Director David Barnett
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Production
Categories
Based on Opera Based on Play Black and White Gothic Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Lost Film Pact with the Devil Phonoscene Romance Temptation The Devil
Descriptions

Featured in August 1910 in the opening program of the Picture Theatre at Kingston. It contained 8 scenes from the Opera on separate reels, and was accompanied by the sound from the Animatophone, a sound on disc system. Apparently, it all ran for 45 minutes.


Around 1910, the British production and distribution company Animatophone Syndicate produced and distributed opera films such as Il Trovatore (1910) and Toreador (1909) using a sound-on-disc process, which was itself called Animatophone. Arthur Gilbert, the owner of the company, also planned a complete film version of Gounod's opera Faust (1910), which was to be realized by the director David Barnett; however, the project proved to be too complex and technically too unstable to actually be realized in its entirety. So only a few arias from the opera were recorded. The company apparently stopped production in 1910.

Source: Das Lexikon der Filmbegriffe - Translated

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Cast
Unavailbale.
Crew
David Barnett - Director
Charles Gounod - Writer (Opera)
Michel Carré - Music (Libretto)
Jules Barbier - Writer (Libretto)
Charles P. Müller - Music