Two very nice additions to the list. What was the Difference between a Living Picture Show, as opposed to a Moving Picture show. I have tried to find an explanation on line but can't find one. I am just guessing, but maybe an early form of late 19th century amusement where the performers actually appeared on stage in a big giant frame in still form and then came to life to perform? Just a guess, if anyone else knows please enlighten me. I had never heard the reference to Living Pictures before and assumed it was an early reference to the first motion pictures. An obvious mistake on my part.
Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: "john robles" <[email protected]> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l at oldcrank.org> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 9:06 PM Subject: Re: [Phono-L] McGinty at the Living Pictures > Don't forget Billy Murray's great Blue Amberols 'He's Working in the > Movies Now' and 'Since Mother Goes to Movie Shows'. > > --- On Thu, 10/9/08, BruceY <Bruce78rpm at comcast.net> wrote: > > From: BruceY <Bruce78rpm at comcast.net> > Subject: [Phono-L] McGinty at the Living Pictures > To: phonolist at yahoogroups.com > Cc: Phono-l at oldcrank.org > Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 5:49 PM > > 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 th > e first couple decades of the twentieth century. > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
