1st Movie Soundtrack and Musical Score

Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894) – William K.L. Dickson

This is the world’s first known experiment in creating a movie with a synchronized soundtrack. Filmed in Thomas Edison’s Black Maria studio, it features director W.K.L. Dickson playing on violin a piece of “The Chimes at Midnight”, an opera by Jean Robert Planquette.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0177707/

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