Thomas Alva Edison marketed his Kinethophone, housed in a limited-access tent filled with asbestos to counteract the echo effect (according to Edison). It included a wax cylinder for recording six and a half minutes of voice or music. It had an endless loop and was connected to a camera. The movies were gradually called talkies, a term that became fashionable. The public demonstration was held in Manhattan at the Colonial Theatre in New York and was a success. Comments included “it was all so natural it was disturbing” and “I heard a photograph barking.”
