Kuss-Duett Mikado - Free Audiobook

Der Mikado: Kussduett (Gilbert and Sullivan)

25 cm s/s Gramophone Concert Record / Gramophone & Typewriter for Messters Projection No. 47

Catalogue Nr. M.P. 624, Matrix Nr. 4316 1/2 h

Oskar BRAUN - Tenor, Unbekannte Frau - Gesang (& Orch.)

"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 1912, 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 at the German Film Museum (links above). 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 went through (Duske) or markings with arrows (Messter) to help to sychronisize the recording exactly with the film.