There were several attempts to make sound films before the ultimate success in the 1920s, led by the Warner Brothers' Vitaphone process and Fox's Movietone put the merger on the cinematic map. Even before his company had turned out a single releasable movie, Edison spoke about the matter. There's an Edison movie from the middle of the 1890s showing two men dancing next to a gramophone that was the result. From 1906 through at least 1910, producers in France and Germany turned out short musical novelties that were played in a few dedicated theaters. In 1913, Edison premiered the baroquely named Kinetophone, with about a dozen shorts. This movie is the English effort, or at least one of them.
In December 1910, Charles Bignell's recording of the title song was released, and the following year, Hepworth released this movie, showing a comic scene in a courtroom, action timed to match the recording. It's a pleasant novelty effort, and doubtless the movie was shown with either a live singer and band performing, or perhaps the record was played.
It didn't take, but it shows the lively technical interest in talking pictures was continuous for almost a decade, a dozen years before other technical issues, like a sound system good enough to exhibit the efforts became available.