The earliest film inspired by Tchaikovsky's classic score. A rare sound film short from 1925.

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To witness the 1925 rendition of the Nutcracker Suite is to peer through a temporal keyhole into the very moment cinema found its voice. Long before the industry coalesced around the standardized systems of the late 1920s, Dave Fleischer and the proponents of the DeForest Phonofilm system were experimenting with the...


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Dave Fleischer

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" To witness the 1925 rendition of the Nutcracker Suite is to peer through a temporal keyhole into the very moment cinema found its voice. Long before the industry coalesced around the standardized systems of the late 1920s, Dave Fleischer and the proponents of the DeForest Phonofilm system were experimenting with the volatile marriage of light and longitudinal sound waves. This short film is not merely a relic; it is a testament to the audacity of the Fleischer brothers, whose later work would..."


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