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Talkies from 1908!
Four women are drinking champagne at a couple of tables. A man comes into their midst and sings the title song in this sound-film from Deutsch Bioskop.
Although talkies did not take off until the late 1920s, there had been experiments made to marry sound and sight as early as 1895. From 1906-1910, Gaumont in France and Deutsch Bioskop in Germany produced series of short subjects, almost invariably of performers singing songs, with very primitive cnematic values -- there was no other way to keep the sound and image steady, except by planting the performer in one spot, pointing the camera right at him, and keeping the microphone close by. It wasn't terribly commercial, since there was only one theater in Berlin that could handle the Deutsch Films; I'm not sure where the French ones played.
It's interesting mostly as a technological artifact and a record of a bygone style of performance; however, for those purposes, it's fascinating.
Although talkies did not take off until the late 1920s, there had been experiments made to marry sound and sight as early as 1895. From 1906-1910, Gaumont in France and Deutsch Bioskop in Germany produced series of short subjects, almost invariably of performers singing songs, with very primitive cnematic values -- there was no other way to keep the sound and image steady, except by planting the performer in one spot, pointing the camera right at him, and keeping the microphone close by. It wasn't terribly commercial, since there was only one theater in Berlin that could handle the Deutsch Films; I'm not sure where the French ones played.
It's interesting mostly as a technological artifact and a record of a bygone style of performance; however, for those purposes, it's fascinating.
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- boblipton
- Apr 3, 2018
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