French music hall performer Polin sings a comic song about being in the army.
I's one of a series of sound films produced by Gaumont. From 1905 through the outbreak of the First World War, there were a goodly number of sound films shot, most of them musicals of one kind or another. Eventually they turned out to be novelties and little more, limited by technical issues of synchronizing the film with the records of the sound, and the financial problems caused by the expense of maintaining the venues that could show the,; the sound playback systems did not have much power, which is why old records had such huge trumpets to get the sound to the listeners' ears.
I's one of a series of sound films produced by Gaumont. From 1905 through the outbreak of the First World War, there were a goodly number of sound films shot, most of them musicals of one kind or another. Eventually they turned out to be novelties and little more, limited by technical issues of synchronizing the film with the records of the sound, and the financial problems caused by the expense of maintaining the venues that could show the,; the sound playback systems did not have much power, which is why old records had such huge trumpets to get the sound to the listeners' ears.
