Recordings made at the very birth of recorded sound, by George Gouraud, Edison's representative in London, including recordings made at a dinner attended by Sir Arthur Sullivan on October 5th 1888. The video also features other historic sound recordings from 1888, 1907 and 1912, including recordings made by Savoyard Walter Passmore, as well as historic movies filmed in England and Ireland in 1888, 1896, 1898, 1900 and 1903,