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January 29, 2014 05:43 pm PST

An awesome 1917 patent for adding dialogue to silentmovies

Charles F. Pidgin came up with a great idea - a coiled paper tube with words printed on it. When actors in a silent movie needed to deliver a line of dialog, they simply blew on the tube to inflate it and show the words.







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