Jack Charman mimes to a recording of his song, while a chorus of beauties dance behind him and attack him in this Hepworth Vivaphone production.
Vivaphone was Hepworth's patented sound-with-film method. Like the contemporary German, French and much later Vitaphone techniques, it used a sound-on-disc recording which the operator strove to keep synchronized with the film. The patent seems to have been issued in 1905 or 1906; a Vivaphone catalogue is known to have been issued in 1909, but seems to be lost; there is also some correspondence about a Vivaphone performance in Turkey in 1913.
Charman was a popular music hall performer of the era. I think he looks like Franklin Pangborn.
Vivaphone was Hepworth's patented sound-with-film method. Like the contemporary German, French and much later Vitaphone techniques, it used a sound-on-disc recording which the operator strove to keep synchronized with the film. The patent seems to have been issued in 1905 or 1906; a Vivaphone catalogue is known to have been issued in 1909, but seems to be lost; there is also some correspondence about a Vivaphone performance in Turkey in 1913.
Charman was a popular music hall performer of the era. I think he looks like Franklin Pangborn.
