Cyrano de Bergerac
About Cyrano de Bergerac
Benoît-Constant Coquelin, billed as Coquelin aîné, plays Cyrano de Bergerac in a short scene from Edmond Rostand's play. The picture is tinted. A wax cylinder carries his voice speaking one of Cyrano's speeches in time with the image.
Cast & crew
More about Cyrano de Bergerac
Clément Maurice directed the two-minute film for Phono-Cinéma-Théâtre. It was shown at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900. The sound is a wax cylinder synchronized to the picture, not a Gaumont Chronophone.
Themes
Look
The print is tinted. Clément Maurice is the credited director; no separate cameraman is named.
Music
A wax cylinder of Coquelin reciting a speech from Cyrano de Bergerac is synchronized to the picture.
Notes
- Coquelin had created the role of Cyrano on stage.
- The English Wikipedia introduction says the tinted film with its cylinder is thought to be the first picture made with both color and sound.
Scenes
- Coquelin, as Cyrano, delivers a speech while the tinted picture runs with the cylinder.
Influenced by
- Cyrano de Bergerac, the play by Edmond Rostand
Also available
- Internet Archive (youtube-gyXdHRyPbuk)
- Wikimedia Commons (Cyrano de Bergerac (1900).webm)