Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac

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Cyrano de Bergerac

1900
Movie
2 min
French

Considered the first motion picture to employ both color and sound, the only film record ever made of the original star of Rostand's famous play performing a scene from his most famous role. It is accompanied by a sound-on-cylinder recording of Coquelin's voice reciting one of Cyrano's speeches.