Die lustige Witwe: Die Grisetten (c. 1908) Grisettenlied from "The Merry Widow".

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Director: Unknown
Production Company: Unknown
Country: Germany
Notes: Grisettenlied (also known as "Yes, it's us, the Grisettes" or "Das Trippel-Trappel Lied") from the third act of Franz Léhar's operetta "The Merry Widow". Tonbild is a term for early cinema films with synchronous sound (recorded and played back using the pin-tone method). In Germany, the production of sound images began around 1903: the camera filmed actors using the playback process to a sound recording on a shellac record. In the cinema show, the projector (usually still hand-cranked) was synchronized with the gramophone. The short films mainly showed popular pieces of music from opera, operetta and revue. There were even special audio-visual theaters for the extremely popular genre. Before the start of the First World War in 1914, the brief era of audio images ended again. Filmed in large numbers around 1908, they are now among the rarities of early film heritage.

Playlist of Tonbilder, 1907-1909:    • Tonbilder (Sound Pictures) 1907-1909  

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