• Short Summary

    Early method of producing sound film is demonstrated.

  • Description

    Unused / unissued material -

    German voiceovered material featuring:

    CU Gramophone record. It is placed is onto a gramophone.

    Intertitle reads: "Prolog aus 'Bajazzo'.

    Operatic Tenor singing, sound from gramophone is synchronised with his lip movements.

    Intertitle reads: "Die Original-Grammophon-platten von 1903 wurden 1933 auf modernen Lichtton ubertragen."

    More shots of the tenor - wearing the costume of a jester or clown.

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    1798.11
    Media URN:
    60589
    Group:
    Unissued unused
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    Sound:
    Sound
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:01:07:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:18:47:00 / 01:19:54:00
    Canister:
    UN 1 E (F)

Comments (1)

  1. ANTOINE says

    This piece is from Leoncavallo's opera "Pagliacci" (known as "Bajazzo" in German, hence the unfamiliar title). Note that the label of the alleged synchronised disc actually bears the handwritten description "Pistonsolo", i.e. cornet solo. Presumably the filmmaker hoped we wouldn't notice the difference.

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