A short, three minute documentary exploring audio recordings from the year 1894 to 1922, layered over home-footage from | dG1feXR2RXpWLVFGU2M
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00:00I don't believe much in the gramophone, and I don't believe much in its practical use.
00:28I want you to show her, the baby, and Mrs. Embry, and myself, what you can do.
00:34October 22nd, 1894.
00:38Joseph Sawyer.
00:40This is my 71st birthday, and I am very glad to see my children and grandchildren here.
00:48Omaha, Nebraska.
00:51January 9th, 1910.
00:55At Ralph's home.
00:57Hello, Father. This is Lester.
01:01Georgia and Alan, also Grandma and Grandpa Boulder and Margaret, are here.
01:06Nazareth, April 1st, 1914.
01:12A high old dime at Lacey's Dinner.
01:16January 1st, 1915.
01:19A merry and happy New Year.
01:23Ladies and gentlemen, I will now show you what fun it is to take care of children.
01:31I'm glad to see you all, but Ma says I must come home at 4 o'clock and see the chickens and look up the eggs.
01:38Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
01:42Oh, Lord what a joke.
01:45My grandfather used to tell me that when I was a bare-born, I used to laugh.
01:49Ha, ha, ha, that's a funny one, that's the best I ever heard.
01:53For all of these records, it will be a very interesting time to come
01:58when all of these people have passed away and only their voices can be heard on your...
02:04from your graphophone.
02:06Goodbye.
02:10Oh, I'm ever so much obliged to you
02:12for playing that thing so nicely for me,
02:14Mr. Graphophone.
02:16In heaven, in the canyon,
02:18excavating for a mine,
02:22dwells a miner,
02:2440 miners,
02:26with his daughter,
02:28timeless time.
02:30Oh my darling,
02:32oh my darling,
02:34oh my darling
02:36Clementine,
02:38you are lost and gone
02:40forever,
02:42dreadful sorry,
02:44Clementine.
02:46Oh my darling,
02:48oh my darling,
02:50oh my darling,
02:52Clementine,
02:54you are lost and
02:56gone forever,
02:58dreadful sorry,
03:00Clementine.