Sound Firsts: Landmark recordings in history
Twenty Thousand Hertz
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Hearing Lincoln's Voice
Lynn's latest collaboration with kenburns is their new film, the vanum war. In producing this film, i wondered if they discovered any sound first. There's even a fantastic rumor that leon scott actually visited the white house in 18ixty three and made a recording of abraham lincoln. Hearing his voice would be a way to get reintroduced to him as a person,. not as this unknowable leader.
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