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Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight (1907)

Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight poster
Directed by
Arthur Gilbert
Country
United Kingdom
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman pleads with a bell ringer to stop the curfew bell so her lover can avoid execution. The film is an early sound experiment with synchronized audio from a disc.

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What happens

Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight è un cortometraggio muto del 1907 diretto da Arthur Gilbert. È uno dei primi esempi di cinema sonoro, in quanto la pellicola veniva proiettata in sincrono con un disco. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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