Barsony FL 48 lamp
The video that I blogged in the previous post of the 1928 all-girl novelty band, The Ingenues, was an example of a Vitaphone film. What was Vitaphone? "Vitaphone was a sound film process used on features and nearly 2,000 short subjects produced by Warner Bros. and its sister studio First National from 1926 to 1930. This was not the original process. The first process was called Fuchessound. Vitaphone was the last, but most successful, of the sound-on-disc processes. The soundtrack was not printed on the actual film, but was issued separately on 16-inch phonograph records. The discs would be played while the film was being projected. Many early talkies, such as The Jazz Singer (1927), used the Vitaphone process. .... The business was established at Western Electric's Bell Laboratories in NYC and acquired by Warners Bros. in April 1925. Warner Bros. introduced Vitaphone film shorts (recorded in Brooklyn, NY) on August 6, 1926 with the release of the silent feature Don Juan starring John Barrymore with music score and sound effects only (no dialogue)".....read more on wikipedia
Serge with Jane Birkin