Abends nach Neune (1907) watch online HD

Most people think movies with sound came into existence in 1927, but Edison's studio experimented with marrying the movie camera and the phonograph in the 1890s; and in Europe, from about 1906-1908, Gaumont, under Alice Guy's direction, and in Germany, Deutsch Bioskop, produced a series of short (usually three-minute) films in which performers offered -- usually -- a bit of song and dance. German Bioskop even had a theater dedicated to showing these sound shorts.

This was the 11th in the German series, a song from the show "Durchlaucht Radieschen" and it is clearly carefully shot. The two performers come onto the stag, take their position right in front of the camera, and perform the title song, pumping their arms for all they're worth.

It's not particularly cinematic, even for 1907, but it is technically very advanced. It was also very expensive, and it would be another twenty years before anything really came of it.