Movies and TvShows featuring "early-sound" theme.
Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894) is an important historical movie that showcases early sound experimentation in film. In this short film, a man can be seen dancing with a violin, demonstrating the possibilities of synchronized sound and image.
A showgirl falls for a society boy but has to win over his family.
Armand Dranem performs The True Jiu-Jitsu ("Le Vrai Jiu-Jitsu", by P. Briollet & G. Fabri / C. D'Orviet) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early form of music video was created using a chronophone recording of Dranem, who was then filmed "lip singing". Guy would film phonoscenes of all three major Belle Époque celebrities in France: Polin, Félix Mayol, and Dranem.
Pompeyo and Rodolfo work in a newspaper, but they dream of becoming film actors, so they go to a casting for an American film that will be shot in Madrid for a few days; but things will not turn out as they expect…
Félix Mayol performs The Trottins Polka (La Polka des Trottins, by A. Trebitsch and H. Christine) in this phonoscene by Alice Guy. This early form of music video was created using a chronophone recording of Mayol, who was then filmed "lip singing". Guy would film phonoscenes of all three major Belle Époque celebrities in France: Polin, Félix Mayol, and Dranem.
When a group of isolated people in the Greek mountains set off a cave explosion, they are menaced by an invisible shrieking dinosaur that had been buried for eons
Dranem performs "Five O'Clock Tea" for Alice Guy.
Early "photoscene" (chronograph #7 in Gaumont catalogue) showing a performance of the cake walk. Also known as "Cake-walk nègre" by many (sadly).
What goes in to the phrase, "Let's go to the movies"? An off-screen narrator takes us back to the earliest days of film: clips remind us of early stars and blockbusters. He explains how sound came to motion pictures: we see Jolson singing "Mammy" and John Barrymore playing Richard III. Next is a salute to the 30,000 people working in Hollywood at 272 different crafts. A montage shows us some of those jobs. It ends with a look at the physical production of celluloid (cotton and silver) and the many aspects of movie making. The narrator promises more short films about each step in production. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
Felix Mayol performs Théodore Botrel's 'Lilas-blanc'.
This film by Georges Mendel uses a primitive synchronization system for the projector and phonograph. Original sound lost but recently restored.
This compilation film focuses on the contents of Nazi propaganda shorts such as "The Beauty of Work" (1934), "We Have No Problems" (1933), or "The Will To Live" (1944) that preceded the feature films in German movie theaters between 1933 and 1945. The shorts reveal that men and women workers were idealized, uniformity was stressed, optimism in the face of adversity was the goal, and, in general, all the classic lies that dictatorships use to control and mold their citizens are featured.
Melodie des Herzens is a melodramatic love story set in Budapest during the early sound era. The plot follows a maid who falls in love with a soldier from the Austro-Hungarian army. Their love is tested by various obstacles and circumstances, including the soldier's military duties and the social differences between them. The film explores themes of love, melodrama, and the challenges faced by individuals during this time period.
Alice Guy experiment with visuals and sound by Félix Mayol.
Walter Gibbons was one of Britain's most forward-thinking film entrepreneurs, and deeply entranced by the music hall. In 1900 he launched his 'phono bio tableaux', which synchronised songs recorded by famous music stars on disc with a film of the performance. Sadly, all but one of the films are lost, making this last survivor a unique record of a major Victorian music hall star in sound and vision, as well as the oldest British 'sound film', nearly thirty years before the 'talkies' arrived. Lil Hawthorne, who performs this song, was a well-known American singer, often adopting a male persona, although she was not strictly a male impersonator.
The film introduces and discusses the technical aspects of making talking pictures. It is the first film using the Vitaphone sound film system developed at Bell Laboratories. Originally presented to the New York Society of Electrical Engineers in 1926, Edward B. Craft, the Executive Vice President of Bell Labs, gives the address and demonstration.
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