At a recent meeting of our MAPS chapter phonograph Society, one of our members
demonstrated how early moving Pictures were shown using an Edison Kinetoscope.
This brought to mind some of the early phonograph records made which refer to
early movies or motion pictures, some of which I have in my collection,
including "At the Moving Picture Ball" (on an Edison BA), Take your Girlie to
the Movies, on both Victor (by Billy Murray) & Columbia by Irving Kaufman, Ever
Since the Movies learned to talk by Billy Murray, If I had a Talking Picture of
you, by various artists, and the earliest "McGinty at the Living Pictures" by
Edward M. Favor on Columbia black wax two minute Cylinder 32495. I am sure
there are others, but I was curious if there were any earlier then the McGinty
song which from what I understand was originally recorded by Favor in 1897, I
believe my Columbia is a 1904 effort by Favor. Also feel free to add to the
list of the others titles that I'm sure must exist from the first couple
decades of the twentieth century.
