Nursery Favorites

1913
9m

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Characters from various nursery rhymes sing together.Characters from various nursery rhymes sing together.Characters from various nursery rhymes sing together.

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- Allen Ramsey
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6.0/10

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Director
- Allen Ramsey
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In a modern day interview, after she had seen the restoration of the film, Edison actress Viola Dana (nee Virginia Flugrath) identified the actress who played the Queen of the Fairies as her sister Shirley Mason who was also working for Edison at that time, under her real name, Leonie Flugrath.

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Featured in Hollywood: End of an Era (1980)

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6/10

Hard to watch today...but very important.

This all-sound short from Edison is one of a small number of early experimental films you can find on YouTube. While it's not among the very earliest sound films, it did come out 14 years before the ultra-famous film "The Jazz Singer", which is the first full-length talking film (though it was also partially silent).

The film suffers a lot from changing sensibilities and styles. While it must have wowed audiences of the day, today it seems incredibly dated. It consists of a few actors in nice costumes standing around singing songs about various nursery rhymes and fairy tales. It's done VERY fast (too fast if you ask me) and is pretty weird stuff...but it IS very important historically speaking...even if it probably would bore most folks today.