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AudioFledermaus: Mit mir so spät
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Die Fledermaus: Mit mir so spät (Johann Strauss) 30 cm s/s Cinephon Starkton Record (Eigene Original-Spezial-Aufnahme) Nr. 308 Matrix AD 308 Hermine HOFFMANN - Sopran, Edmund BINDER - Bariton, Emil JUSTITZ - Tenor (& Orch.) rec. ca. 1908 This is a rare example where the original film has survived. The movie with the three singers can be seen here : https://www.filmportal.de/node/1327455/video/1396145 „Tonbilder“ were a combination of a (silent) movie and a recording, which was played in synchronization with the movie in the cinema. They were made from ca. 1903, had their bloom around 1908 and were out of fashion soon after 1910, when cinemas used to have an organ or a piano player who accompanied the films. Most of the films are lost today. You can see a few Tonbilder at the German Film Museum (links below). The two most important producers were Messter (Deutsche Biophon), who mostly used Gramophone recordings, and Alfred Duske, who often used Homocord/Homophon recordings. Even if most of the early films are lost, some of the recordings (which were in most cases not commercially available) survived in record collections. The records often had a second hole in the label where a pin…
Directors & creators
Hermine HOFFMANN - Sopran, Edmund BINDER - Bariton, Emil JUSTITZ - Tenor
Subjects
Fledermaus, Operette, Operetta, Johann Strauss, trio, soprano, Hoffmann, Binder, Justitz, Cinephon, movie record, Tonbild, Alfred Duske, baritone, tenor
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