And we married it up, and sent it back, made a print with the soundtrack on it. We remixed it at Lucas Film, who contributed the cost of the mixing out of their own pocket, which was not much, but significant, and sent it back to the library. And it's now part of the, you know... They admit a number of films every year into the registry, and I think it was admitted a couple of years later into the National Registry of Significant Films, because of this. The fact that historically, this is the first, there's nothing older than that. There are some rumours about something else older with Dickson speaking, but nothing has ever turned up. And the other fantastic thing about it is that we also have no recordings other than this, that we know about, of people speaking in an ordinary situation, kind of off-the-cuff speech. Most recordings from the 19th century are very presentational: 'And now, we will have the something, something', 'And now I'm going to read the speech that I gave at the conference of...' You know? It's the equivalent of those era-type photographs with people sitting very formally. We don't have any candid recordings, and this is a candid recording, because the significant part of it only lasts less than 20 seconds. Because that's how long Edison's films lasted. But there's another couple minutes ahead of that, with people talking to each other about what they're doing. And Dickson noodling around on the violin. And it, unfortunately, is so scratchy and so off-mic, that it's hard to tell what they're saying. But technology is making very big strides in that direction. The day may come when we can decode that information and actually hear it very clearly. Edison himself – he certainly was there – Edison talking to Dickson about what it is that they're doing, and the last-minute preparation before they actually push the button and record this thing.
