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The copy of the the three-minute talking short I viewed of the duet "Mit Mir So Spat" was dated as 1909 on the collection of German shorts I saw. Contrary to most peoples' understanding of film chronology, there were experiments in synchronizing sound and film as early as 1895; from 1906 through 1910, Deutsch Bioskop produced a series of three-minute musical films, which they showed at a dedicated theater in Berlin.
As with the others, the performers enter, take center stage, and sing. The primitive sound equipment made it impossible for them to move. This was a problem that would continue through the early Vitaphone period.
The difficulty of exhibiting such films, the long gap between these and the rise of the talkie era a couple of decades later and, indeed, the American-centric view of cinema has rendered these primitive efforts an obscure and largely technical backwater in film history.
As with the others, the performers enter, take center stage, and sing. The primitive sound equipment made it impossible for them to move. This was a problem that would continue through the early Vitaphone period.
The difficulty of exhibiting such films, the long gap between these and the rise of the talkie era a couple of decades later and, indeed, the American-centric view of cinema has rendered these primitive efforts an obscure and largely technical backwater in film history.
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- boblipton
- Apr 7, 2018
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